American White Pelican – Wandering Dawgs

Birds with Color in their Name

May 18, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged American White Pelican, birdweekly, Brown Pelican, color in their name, Great Blue Heron13 Comments

Here are a few colorful birds with colorful names.

Thanks to Lisa for her Bird Weekly Challenge: Birds with color in their name

Birds flying over water

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged American White Pelican, Birds In Flight, birdweekly, Brown Pelican, Great Blue Heron, Sunday Stills, Water in the Details22 Comments

After I chose a few images of birds in flight for Lisa’s Bird Weekly Challenge I realized they were all flying over water. Then I remembered that Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge: Water in the Details. Thank you both for the inspiration for this post.

Bird Weekly Challenge – Birds in Black and White

March 25, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged American White Pelican, birdweekly, Black and White, Brown Pelican, Osprey19 Comments

Lisa has challenged us to show black and white or sepia bird images this week. Here are a few of my favorites.

Shared with Lisa’s Bird Weekly Challenge Birds in Black and White or Sepia and Cee’s Anything in Flight

Bird Weekly Challenge – Birds That Eat Fish

March 18, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged American White Pelican, anhinga, Birds that Eat Fish, birdweekly, Osprey14 Comments

There are many more birds that eat fish as their primary diet. I’ve chosen these images of birds with the freshly captured fish.

American White Pelican with a mouth full of fish

Anhinga with a big catch in the Everglades

Many thanks to Lisa for this week’s Bird Weekly Challenge Birds that Eat Fish as their primary diet

Bird Weekly Challenge #27: Birds with Long Wingspans

January 7, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged American White Pelican, Bald Eagle, birdweekly, long wingspan, Osprey, Photo Challenge, Red Tailed Hawk, Roseate Spoonbill, Whooping Crane14 Comments

The wingspan of the American White Pelican can be as much as nine feet wide. A single pelican is shown in the image above and the next image is a trio flying over the water.