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DianaT
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Pelicanos up close showing their personalities
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Diver
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Is that third one giving me the eye ?
She looks like she is giving me the eye !! 
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bajajudy
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Diver
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I have to look for the ones with white heads. The ones here are brown pelicans, I think.
What kind of lens did you use.....or are you walking on water again.
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BigWooo
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Wow!
Great photos.
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Diver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
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Hey dude, I don't play that way !!
Very nice shots, Diane.
Thanks !!
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amir
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Pelicanos magnificos! 
Muchas gracias por las fotos... 
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Leo
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nice shots!
What camera are you using?
The grass is always greener....
and so, there is always a better spot in Baja
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Ken Bondy
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Nice photos Diane!! They sure are great subjects and you got 'em very well. ++Ken++
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Skipjack Joe
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What I find curious is that small hook at the end of their bills. Almost like a finger nail. They all have it. It just never looks like it's made from
the same matter.
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bajajudy
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I have watched them and they definitely use that hook to clean themselves. BUT it is funny you should bring that up because the other day I was in
the water with some pelicans and was observing them up close and personal. They also seem to use that hook to close their beaks so nothing can fall
out...particularly sardinas, kinda like a hasp.
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bajadock
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thanks for the fun pix, Diane. I enjoy watching pelicans surfing for fish. When I figure out my new camera, will post.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Diver
Is that third one giving me the eye ?
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I think it's more like the look.
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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DianaT
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Thanks---glad you enjoyed the pix. We have tons of pelicans here---both kinds.
These were taken from a boat---lobster fishing boat. I know this sounds crazy, but I donīt remember exactly what my camera is and I donīt have it
here. It is a Cannon SLR and my lens is a Tarron travel zoom. Still learning to use it which means I want more equipment. 
I love that hook at the end of the beak---also, I can spend hours watching them skim the water --- another one of our exciting front porch adtivities.
Diver, you do need to get down here and take some lessons in bird gender.
Diane
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Diver
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Here's a brown one from La Ventana
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And this white one from the same place.
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Natalie Ann
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I believe this is a juvenile brown pelican... note the lightness of the colors along beak/head/neck. Not sure about this juvenile thing, as these
pelicans and their changing colors, as well as which is male or female, which is what type... it's all a bit confusing to me.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Natalie Ann
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I know this guy's in full breeding plumage... but be he a white or a brown pelican?
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Skipjack Joe
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Nice picture Natalie. It's a brown. The other species is white all over and much larger. In fact, it's amazing just how big a white pelican is. It may
be our biggest bird after the cranes and herons.
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DianaT
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Hope that seagull got out of the way. Great shot.
Diane
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The ones with the white heads are just brown pelicans in breeding plumage. It's their way of saying "Oh baby oh baby!" I think both males and females
develop that breeding plumage, but I could be wrong. Great photos!!
"Oh, a wonderous bird is the pelican!
His bill holds more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
enough food for a week.
But I'm darned if I know how the helican."
-Dixon Lanier Merritt
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