{"id":4654,"date":"2012-03-19T06:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:02:59","slug":"american-white-pelican-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/03\/19\/american-white-pelican-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"American White Pelican In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not far from where I live there is a small pond where I photographed this American White Pelican in flight two springs ago.<\/p>\n

I woke this morning to find the ground blanketed in fresh snow. Later this week the forecasters say it will be in the 70’s, crazy spring weather.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican White Pelican in flight – Nikon D200, tripod mounted, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 320, +1.0 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 215mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t have to go far from home to photograph birds because of that pond being nearby\u00a0but it can be a challenge trying to frame a shot where the hand of man isn’t obvious when the birds are in flight.<\/p>\n

There are power lines, power poles, tall lights from a baseball field and quite often airplanes in the sky.<\/p>\n

What can not be seen in this image is a huge power pole just outside the left side of the frame. I cropped this image to remove it.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Not far from where I live there is a small pond where I photographed this American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) just after it had lifted off from the water two springs ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158167,"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":[3,27,709],"tags":[4004,3966,4052,4122,4154,4,706,1984,4076,4741],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-pelicans","category-avian","category-salt-lake-county-utah","tag-adult","tag-american-white-pelican","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-pelecanus-erythrorhynchos","tag-pelican","tag-pelicans","tag-pond","tag-trees","tag-white-pelicans"],"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