brown pelican

Sometimes we feel like clamming up, but it's important to keep communicating.

The Pelican environment suffered significant ecosystem damage from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico petroleum disaster. Dead pelicans were seen on Raccoon Island, the largest pelican rookery in Louisiana. Rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina, it was home to more than 60,000 pelicans, but since the oil spill mature pelicans are scarce. ~ wikipedia

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Found out the fine folks in Louisiana call these Ditch Chickens. :0)

In awe of birds

How do you fish?

I wonder how it feels to walk on stilts?

And have a long neck.

I bet it makes for easier fishing.

Then again. . .

Looking Down

If I could pull my eyes from the trees and the sky I found plenty of things to see on the ground too.

A Green Heron strutting.

A feather caught in a spiderweb and reflected in the water below.

A White Ibis preening.

A Great Egret searching.

As an alligator slides gently along.

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PS - I keep forgetting to mention that I've added the plugin that makes my blog easier to read on mobile devices.  Sorry I was so slow about it, but hope it helps the mobile peoples, lol.

Great Egret Macro Monday

I was happy to get this close to the Great Egret but it wasn't quite close enough.

This is better, but I wonder if we can get closer. . .

Well, yes we can. :) I like this I think better than if he was looking at me, it's like we're sneaking up on him.

Hope everyone had a fantastic Easter Weekend!

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. Don't forget to visit each other. :)

Dinner?