An American White Pelican with a large fish in its pouch. One from the archives, photographed on Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan in the late 1990s.
This part of Ontario is under a heat warning at the moment which got me thinking about photography in hot weather. That made me think of a hot afternoon in Saskatchewan when I set up a tripod in a channel where a marsh drains into a section of Last Mountain Lake. I sat in the water behind the camera. There was a group of American White Pelicans fishing in the channel. They would swim in the direction of the water flow before flying back to the start of the channel and repeating the fishing expedition.
This breeding adult looks a bit grumpy despite the size of the fish it has caught.
Took me about three looks to figure out what was going on in that photo. I thought there were two birds there initially.
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Thanks Graham. I don’t remember seeing any other Pelicans with such a big fish in their pouch. I have two shots of that bird. I wonder if it was struggling to get it down.
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