Friday, October 24, 2008

Pelicans

Pelicans at Road's End beach (they should call it "Pelican Beach...")

pelicans

I took a walk on the beach early Friday morning. The beach was not particularly remarkable, as Oregon beaches go, but there is a colony(?) of pelicans that roosts on a giant rock just off shore.

Pelicans can usually be seen flying in orderly lines of six to a couple dozen birds, just above the crest of the incoming waves. Fishing, I assume.

Line after line of pelicans came winging down the waves along this beach. Always flying north. I have to assume that they looped south again in order to make more north-bound fishing runs, but I never saw one pelican flying south. I felt like I was inside one of those lamp shades that has a scene painted on it and goes around and around.

Anyway, the new camera got a few good shots...

(And I see size "Big" Flickr pictures are just a teensy bit too big for this space... Gotta stick with "medium" or portrait-oriented shots, I guess.)

3 comments:

  1. That is just beautiful Lisa! You are so lucky to live so close to the beach....its all I miss about Edwardsburg...

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  2. Like Tressa said! Reminds me of the saying...If you are lucky enough to live by the ocean, you are lucky enough! Great shot!

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  3. Well, see...you learn something new ;) I had no idea there were beaches in Oregon. Seems like something I should have realized now that I know...ha!
    I love shots of birds in motion...very nice photo.

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