American White Pelican – Wandering Dawgs

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.

These are some more of of my favorite captures of birds with long wingspans.

Thank you Lisa. for this Bird Weekly Challenge: Birds with Long Wingspans

Bird Weekly Challenge #10: Yellow or Orange Legged Birds

August 17, 2020Posted in Birds, PhotographyTagged American White Pelican, birdweekly, Cedar Key, Photo Challenge15 Comments

For this week’s challenge I chose a few images of my favorite orange legged bird, the American White Pelican. With a wing span of up to 9 feet, they are one of largest birds in North America.

My first sighting of them was in Cedar Key, Florida. I have also seen huge flocks in Everglades National Park, on the Texas Gulf Coast, and have even seen a flock on Lake Chicot in Arkansas.

I fell in love with these birds when I first saw them several years ago while on a nature cruise in the waters around Cedar Key. Our captain took us by several flocks standing on sandbars and some flew right beside the boat.

American White Pelicans, Cedar Key, Florida

American White Pelicans flying by the boat

At Goose Island State Park on the Texas Gulf Coast there were White Pelicans hanging around the docks every day hoping for an easy meal.

White Pelicans go after a fish carcass tossed out by fisherman at a fish cleaning station in Texas

I was surprised to see a huge flock of big white birds on Lake Chicot in Arkansas. It wasn’t until I got out the binoculars that I could see they were White Pelicans. They were too far away to get a good photo but I was able to capture this one flying on the other side of lake while a Great Blue Heron stood in the shallow water by the shoreline.

White Pelican flies by blue heron over Lake Chicot

Thanks you Lisa. for this challenge. Her original post is Bird Weekly Challenge #10 – Yellow or Orange Legged Birds