Around Marion Bay are a few pelicans.
Our younger members of the family (not myself of course) are fascinated by the pelicans. Whenever we arrive at our beach shack one of the first things we do is head to the beach and see where the pelicans are and count their numbers. Sometimes three or four sometimes thirteen to fifteen. Sometimes none at all! I think the most we’ve ever seen and counted was seventeen.
They seem to lurk about wherever shoreline fishermen are casting out their rods. Always on the lookout for something that resembles a small fish. We have tried feeding them bread but to no avail not the least bit interested. The seagulls soon eat what the pelicans turn their beaks up at!
Apparently pelican child rearing habits are not to be desired. They have two young and feed only one and let the other die. However, this morose fact does not deter us from loving them and photographing them whenever we can.
Through winter, spring, summer and autumn we watch and wait, observing and counting, so much fun and so wonderful to have nature at our back door
In a line perched on the Marion Bay poles of the boat ramp.
Finding food
Birds are amazing creatures the ability to fly gives one that sense of freedom. The size of pelicans makes it particulary intriguing…how does such a big bird take to the sky and how do they eat with such a large beak. Lovely to photograph and certainly lovely to observe.
All photos are photographed by Wendy Philip. No AI generated images.
