{"id":33832,"date":"2015-11-30T05:34:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T11:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=33832"},"modified":"2024-11-17T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T11:38:12","slug":"a-trio-of-brown-pelicans-over-the-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/11\/30\/a-trio-of-brown-pelicans-over-the-gulf-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of Brown Pelicans Over The Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brown Pelicans are nearly as common in coastal Florida as Canada Geese<\/span><\/a> are here in Utah but they are birds and I find them all<\/em> appealing. I photographed Brown Pelicans often when I lived in Florida but looking back I know I wish I would have taken more images of them before I left the Gulf Coast to move out west.<\/p>\n

\"BrownBrown Pelicans and a Laughing Gull in an early morning flight – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 200, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 195mm, natural light
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Brown Pelicans plunge dive<\/span><\/a> to fish and it can be quite dramatic to see dozens of pelicans diving into the Gulf all at once. The morning that I created the image above was a bird photographer’s delight, or at least it was to me.<\/p>\n

Schools of small fish were running just off of the shore of Fort De Soto County Park<\/span><\/a> on a January morning and it caused a feeding frenzy for the pelicans, gulls and terns along with wading birds on the shoreline. I remember the sounds of the gulls calling, the pelicans splashing into the water and the smell of the salty breeze.<\/p>\n

I did take quite a few full frame images of individual birds but I also wanted to capture what some people call birdscapes by zooming back to capture several birds in a frame with the cloudy sky in the background. Some of those images didn’t work because I would have out of focus birds in the foreground but some did work out quite well.<\/p>\n

In this frame I only had one out of focus tern on the left side of the frame but it was in the distance and appears tiny so it doesn’t distract at all from the trio of Brown Pelicans and the single Laughing Gull. I know I could clone out the tern but I like it there because it was there<\/em> and I am not fond at all of the cloning brush.<\/p>\n

I have been very fond of this image of the trio of Brown Pelicans and the Laughing Gull since I first saw it on my screen and nearly six years later I still find myself quite pleased with it.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Brown Pelican photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brown Pelicans are nearly as common in coastal Florida as Canada Geese are here in Utah but they are birds and I find them all appealing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,143,25,704,2000],"tags":[4004,3994,4052,4122,4077,3995,4160,4158,4,706,373],"class_list":["post-33832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-brown-pelicans","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-pinellas-county-florida","tag-adult","tag-brown-pelican","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-laughing-gull","tag-leucophaeus-atricilla","tag-pelecanus-occidentalis","tag-pelican","tag-pelicans","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t