Monday, January 24, 2011

on the several varieties of pelican

I lied; there’s only one kind of pelican here today - Pelecanus occidentalis. The immature kind, which is this lovely brown…

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…and the mature ones, practicing their synchronized grooming ballet.

“My Turn.”

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“Your Turn.”

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“All Together Now.”

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We’re also featuring pelicans in the surf today…

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…as well as flying pelicans.

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I took an embarrassingly large quantity of photos of a guy paddling out in the surf, thinking he was a pelican. Whoops.

We also have Kennedy Space Center stuff off in the distance.

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I’ve visited the Kennedy Space Center before – at the tail end of a business trip in 1998, when a bunch of us were fortunate enough to watch the Endeavour come in for a landing from a distance. We may visit it tomorrow; stay tuned.

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