I was waiting for this Brown Pelican to take off, we were floating close to shore.
You can see he is just standing on the spit of land, the surf lapping at his feet.
However, nothing.
So what was he doing…
Just letting his feet get wet.
A pretty bird, made a great photo, but some action ?
Not happening. Again proves you never know what you might find out there 😂.
We spotted this Heron from a boat, at a distance.
I don’t think of Night Herons as shore birds, but there are salt marshes, and wooded areas, along the estuaries.
These estuaries are known to be one of the clearest and most diverse in the US. I am never surprised at what we find here.
He sat in this Live Oak preening and doing the ‘fluff’ never once paying attention to us floating by.
I guess a boat is as good as a car for a ‘bird blind’.
Stono River, South Carolina.
Pelican gliding into the surf heading towards land.
Charleston, South Carolina.
Brown Pelican, Bird Key, Charleston.
The perfect image to view on a hot day like today.
A few B&W fun shots.
These are best viewed large since things are happening everywhere… shrimp flying through the air, big Pelican bills poked inside other big Pelican bills, even a poor guy losing his hard fought fish.
In the above it took a while to figure out how a Pelican bill got inside another one !
Fish and shrimp were flying around in the last one.
You just never know what you might see out there.
I love catching these guys at the piers.
Masters at working the shrimp boats.
Charleston, South Carolina.
The Egret was right inside the shrimp box, stealing all he could.
It looked like he had two accomplices keeping a lookout for him.
I came across images still to be finished and this one just struck me.
An immature Pelican riding the surf, with his Laughing Gull neighbors.
However, what was happening to make all the birds look the other way ?
