Sunday, November 29, 2009

Pelicans and Water Turkeys...

Winter time is pelican time on the east Texas Lakes. A friend reports thousands of these huge birds behind the dam on Lake Livingston. Here you see a bunch mixed in with water turkeys on Lake Rayburn. I would like to measure that wing span. best information I get is that they migrate from the Great Lakes region each winter.



Little bit of zoom little bit of crop makes that state Highway 147 bridge look a lot closer than it is. It's about 5 miles away. In the background behind the pelicans and water turkeys (also known as cormorants and federally protected) is a lone blue heron. Just out from that heron is a quick drop to 50 feet deep into the old Angelina River Channel. I bet between those birds there be catfish. Good article on cat fishing in the Lufkin paper today, mentions fishing under the trees these cormorants roost in. I will have to try that.

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