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Pelicans in Action

Started Feb 26, 2016 | Photos
vass
vass Senior Member • Posts: 1,929
Pelicans in Action
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Lately I have come across a few Pelicans on the river and small lakes. I have captured a lot of different behaviours from the Australian pelican and thought id'e share some with you all.
goal here was not to isolate the subject but to show its habitat too

Enjoy!

Typical River scene.

Just taking off

The famous pelican splash

Beak action 1...captured many sharp frames in between but to not over do it i'll keep it minimal

beak action 2

beak action 3

beak action 4 , turning it inside out

beak action 5

beak action 6, it thought no one was looking

Ready for take-off

Low level flight

One more

regards,
Vas

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Mister Roboto
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All wonderful and beautifully taken. No wonder it can swallow any mid-sized bird with its huge mouth!

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excellent, second to last is wonderful

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Great shots and a great lens combo which I also use.

Many thanks for sharing.

John

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Very interesting shots!

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Mister Roboto wrote:

All wonderful and beautifully taken. No wonder it can swallow any mid-sized bird with its huge mouth!

Thanks
They will swallow anything fit fits in their mouth, seen a few large fish of about 50cm get swallowed after fisherman released them.

Trevor Carpenter wrote:

excellent, second to last is wonderful

Thanks Trevor

JIngrouille wrote:

Great shots and a great lens combo which I also use.

Many thanks for sharing.

John

thanks 

jonnieb wrote:

Very interesting shots!

thanks
They can be boring at times but other times they can really do some interesting things.

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