As a general rule, I like big birds. They don’t flit around or hide in dense bushes.
On the other hand, when they do move, they can quite quickly move out of the camera’s frame.
Exactly because they aren’t rare, pelicans offer me the chance to get them in motion, making good photographic subjects. Although there is that regrettable tendency to poop and to pose in the same place . . .
Looks like another collection to add to your catalogue Isabel
Jim R – 🙂 Maybe . . . They are all over the place here, so they give me lots of opportunities.
But they are not all over the place here in Canada, which makes them more fun to contemplate and admire.
Laurna – True. I’ve seen white pelicans in Lockport MB (and Saskatoon, decades ago), but not this version so much.
I seem to see lots of them, and I’m not a “birder”. Turns out the white pelicans are common in Alberta – which I am happy to hear, and always enjoy seeing them – although I’d trade you for a pretty red cardinal?
Alison – Yes, my bird book shows the American White pelican as summering in the American West and the Canadian Prairie provinces. The Brown Pelican seems to be limited to the east coast (Virginia, down to the Caribbean, and around the Gulf Coast and up into Texas and Oklahoma – if I’m deciphering the states correctly). We have cardinals here in Myrtle Beach, too – quite cheery, especially outside our bedroom window in the early AM.