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This brown pelican from last week beat a hasty retreat out of the salt marsh. Clearly he had more important business to attend to…Â
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Phil Lanoue Photography 
Nice one Phil we got the same shot with the wings forward just a different angle. Too bad there wasn’t more happening that day. Oh well next time
Thanks for checking these out TJ I appreciate it.
Laying out for speed – you’d think there was a medal at stake. Beautiful.
Looks like he made it to the finals! But will he make it to the podium?!?
I like his chances.
Great BIF’s Phil.
Thanks so much Jan, glad you like the pelican!
Just gorgeous!
Thanks a bunch!
Fantastiche foto, il pellicano sembra stia facendo una gara e il suo è lo scatto vincente 🙂
Ciao, Pat
Probabilmente ha vinto questa gara! Grazie Pat!
BIF, the Fast and Furious version!
Hey I think you are right! Thanks!
Camera shy perhaps?
Maybe he doesn’t like me? Nah, it can’t be that. 😕 🙂
I missed coming to this place…. That last shot is so unbelievably beautiful!!
Well thank you Paula, glad to hear you liked these pelican pics!
I wish I could like this one several times lol
I appreciate that very much thank you!
Probably forgot to turn off the oven at home. Cool take off shots, Phil.
I thought I heard a ‘ding’ out there, maybe he had something in the microwave? 😀
He’s banded! I wonder who’s working on your pelicans and what they’re studying? Awesome photos, as usual!
I see quite a few banded brown pelicans, they get them when they are young. Some of them are rehabs from injuries and some are studies of migratory habits and life span.
Thanks for checking these out!
Fantastic photos. The last one is incredible.
Thank you very much for looking and commenting and I’m glad you enjoyed the photos!
Hey, where’s his posse? Thought they liked to work the marsh are a group? Nice photos Phil. You did a nice job with him.
There were several out there working the marsh, not exactly together but nearby.
The white pelicans are more often likely to stay in groups.
I’ve been away…nice to come back to this handsome pelican winging its way across the marsh!! Interesting that he has the brown eyes of a young brown pelican still but the head feathers look adult!! Not sure when the blue eyes appear..only that adults have those.
I have photos of three adult pelicans together and they each have different colored eyes.
It is quite interesting.
That was one of the first things that surprised me when I started hanging out with birds…that the brown pelicans have the white belly, overall brown, and brown eyes when juvenile and the breeding adults definitely have startling blue eyes, the yellow head. and when really ‘taken’ have the brown colors on the back of the neck, and the bill reddens too. I thought they were two different kinds of pelicans initially. Nature can throw us sometimes just when we think we know things.
The adults can really get into some very interesting color variations when in breeding!
Great set Phil!! Very difficult to make such quality shots. Thanks!!!
Thanks very much for looking and commenting I appreciate it!
Definitely a pelican in a hurry.
It’s funny how they suddenly decide they need to leave IMMEDIATELY! 🙂
Never enough hours in the day! I saw the band and looked for an explanation from you Phil, which saved you having to explain all over again – interesting!
I see banded brown pelicans more then any other bird Maggie. That’s somewhat surprising considering they are fairly common here along the beach.
I love the first pic. It’s absolutely fantastic.
Hey thanks! Glad you liked it!
Stunning action shots, Phil. Loved them all. 🙂
It’s great to hear you enjoyed these pics Sylvia, thank you!
Always!! 🙂
What a stunning image of him floating over the water just so…!
The pelicans are often elegant flyers but they hit the water like someone just tossed them out of a moving vehicle.
Hahh! That’s a fantastic analogy. 🙂
Wonderful – love the first and second shots in the sequence. Perfect timing – outstanding.