It doesn’t matter how many Pelican photographs i have taken in the past.
The very fact that I can is still amazing.
And when the next opportunity comes along, I will do it again.
As a young adult in New York City I had gone away a few times to ‘sunny climates’. I marveled at the Pelicans. I still do, just more often.
I wasn’t sure they weren’t planning to eat me.
I looked up into the rigging and discovered these two looking down.
Serious expressions here.
Curious, yes. Probably about food not me.
There is plenty of competition near the fishing boat piers, some Pelican will continuously patrol the waters around the tie ups.
The Gulls will stay nearby and even Dolphin.
They all know sooner or later old bait, or ‘junk fish’, will be cast overboard.
If you time a stop here when the boats are active the Pelican will ignore you and provide some of the best close shots you can get. It’s not easy to get detailed images of Pelican, I like to stop by here at least monthly.
Besides, commercial fishing pier always have fresh seafood restaurants near.
A shot that never is what I saw in my mind.
Pelicans flying low over the surf. Best viewed large.
It must be harder than I think.
Came real close to missing this one.
We were on a boardwalk heading to the fishing boats, this Pelican came right past low to the water.
I was using a ‘one size fits all’ type lens here so that made getting focus more like a guess.
I guess Pelicans can read. Why else would he sit up there with a flag.
Sitting in the rigging of a shrimp boat.
With their necks all twisted around, watching me, and one sound asleep you can’t help but smile they look so comical.
Everyone loves the Pelican.
You will find the Pelican has a great love of the commercial fishing boats. It’s called free food, like a country buffet.
Some follow the rules, wait in the buffet line for their turn.
And then there is the ‘line jumper’
They hide and ambush others for the first spot in line when the food comes out.
A fishing boat is like the early bird special to a Pelican.
