..was lucky enough to get up close to this jittery bird, i guess this one’s used to us bipeds already..
*SOOC except for the vignette
*changed title, i liked mark‘s comment.. 😀
Tag: Dauphin Island
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..rules are meant to be broken, this framing worked for me.. 🙂
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..wifey walking along Dauphin Island beach, taken the week before the booms were put in place around the island..
..far better shot than what i had before..
The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is the smallest of the eight species of pelican, although it is a large bird in nearly every other regard. It is 106–137 cm (42–54 in) in length, weighs from 2.75 to 5.5 kg (6-12 lb) and has a wingspan from 1.83 to 2.5 m (6 to 8.2 ft). (wiki)
..i dunno why, but these guys were fun to look at, they look pretty sharp.. i guess that’s what makes them “royal”.. 🙂
..or maybe mobsters eyeballing the opposing “family”.. 🙂
The Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus, syn. Sterna maxima) is a seabird in the tern family Sternidae. This bird has two distinctive subspecies.T. m. maximus breeds on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the southern USA and Mexico into the Caribbean. The slightly smaller T. m. albididorsalis breeds in coastal west Africa.American birds winter south to Peru and Argentina, and African breeders move both north and south from the breeding colonies. (wiki)
..it was a great day, i took the BigmOS out for a stroll..
The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores and England. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and south Florida was once known as a separate species, the Great White Heron. (wiki)
..shot while wading ankle deep in slowly rising waters.. the opposite view of this one..
..this is how winter looks like here.. well, it is actually cold.. it just doesn’t look like it.. 😀
..this was one skittish crab we chased around unsuccessfully with a macro lens mounted to a dslr, after a few feet, we gave up and used the p&s instead.. it was about the size of a thumbnail.. can’t say what type of crab it was though.. 🙂
..taken a while ago at dauphin island.. i’m feeling a bit iffy about posting this one.. but i’m tired.. and sleepy.. i’ll be back to visiting you bloggers later.. 🙂