A wonderful bird is the Pelican.......

I've seen a Pelican do this once before, but was just as amazed by it today.

Open wide

Wider

Now, push your body up and stretch that bill

More

Aaaah

That feels much better

Now, relaaax

A little bit more..

Bill's feeling nice and supple now.

The end

Outstanding pics Margaret!

Their such beautiful birds.

Thanks, Pelle. It's amazing, isn't it? You're up mighty early - or maybe mighty late.

Read about these beak exercises that they do, nice to see a series of good pics of it!

Resin

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This message was edited Apr 25, 2009 9:43 AM

Resin, it was your good self who explained why they do this when I posted this single shot last year.

I'd forgotten that one! ;-)

Wow Margaret those are great shots...so clear and sharp! Like Resin said...it nice to see this in a series! Thanks for posting them!

Spectacular photos!!

ouch.

Great shots, Margaret. I have yet to get an up-close photo of our White or Brown Pelicans. I see the White Pelicans quite often but they are always congregated well off-shore.

Nice series. I didn't realize that there are seven species of Pelicans. Yours looked slightly different so I looked it up and found out yours is the Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus).

I learned something new .............

really great series! So neat to see the whole process from begining to end.

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