Big Bird...

After I got off work yesterday (surprise, I do have a day job, just a small supplemental salary to what I make mining the Internet) we headed out to the lake. Very cold and windy. No fish. Water levels very low.

Here is a picture of a large pelican. These guys winter on Big Sam, migrating in from the great lakes region. Usually spotted in groups of 10-30 birds hanging out in water about 25' deep this guy was all by himself in a shallow cove. There were other local birds around, maybe auditioning for a a new job. He says, "I just thought I could make it on the Great Lakes."

I suspect the grouping together of these guys is actually a herding of whatever kind of fish is for dinner into the middle of the flock where they can be contained and eaten at leisure, which is how I like to eat my fish, at leisure.

Maneged to get a fair picture in flight. These are big birds. I bet they require several pounds of fish swimming in their bellies each day to survive.