Showing posts with label pelican. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pelican. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

January 14: Sanibel

Spent the day birding with my husband and my mother in one of my favorite places: Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge.
 
White pelican
has a nine-foot wingspan.
But the spoonbill is pink!
 

Friday, March 22, 2013

March 21: Pelicans

Birding today at Ding Darling NWR on Sanibel Island. As the tide ebbed in the mangrove-edged inlet, white pelicans and other birds flew onto the exposed flats. The pelicans are very huge and very white, especially when seen next to other birds.
 
Opening in the sun,
pelican's translucent bill.
Thin-skinned, all of us.