White Pelicans in Flight

JohnDCJohnDC Registered Users Posts: 379 Major grins
edited January 7, 2009 in Wildlife
I went back to the Salton Sea to test a new camera set up. The reward for approaching the pelicans in a slow, non-threatening way: they cooperated by flying in my direction.

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2. Backlit
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6. White-capped: snow, feathers, guano.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2009
    Hi John

    Dig the 1st and last thumb.gif
    Benjamin
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  • rpcrowerpcrowe Registered Users Posts: 733 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2009
    great images
    Thanks for sharing...
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2009
    Very nice, well exposed and good details. clap.gif
    Harry
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited January 6, 2009
    Whoa -- those are goood!!! clap.gif

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  • raptorcaptorraptorcaptor Registered Users Posts: 3,968 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2009
    Nice set John! I almost made a trip to the Salton Sea before New year, but just ran out of time! :cry
    Glenn

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  • JohnDCJohnDC Registered Users Posts: 379 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2009
    Harryb wrote:
    Very nice, well exposed and good details. clap.gif

    Thanks, Harry. I'm just practicing for Bosque....
    John
  • JohnDCJohnDC Registered Users Posts: 379 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2009
    kdog wrote:
    Whoa -- those are goood!!! clap.gif

    -joel

    Thanks, Joel. By the way, when I met a photographer at the pelican spot blasting his car horn trying to get all the birds in the air, I passed on your information about how much energy it takes for the birds to migrate and take off. He went into a rage, screamed about me being an a**hole, and threatened to smash my camera. I took pics of him, his car, and his license plate, said goodbye, and thought about how many better people exist in the world.
    John
  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2009
    Nice series and 5 and 6 are outstanding. I'll just pretend that they are not perching on guano. :D
    Stephen
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  • JohnDCJohnDC Registered Users Posts: 379 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2009
    raptorcaptor wrote:
    Nice set John! I almost made a trip to the Salton Sea before New year, but just ran out of time! :cry

    Thanks, Glenn. The birds will be there for a few more months this year--for Felicia, too, this is a Mecca for birders, who outnumbered the photographers. (Actually, I don't know if there are many birds in Mecca, which is just up the road.) --- John
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