Did Somebody Have a Bad Day?

This guy doesn't look very happy. He should be. Just a few minutes before I snapped this photo, he swooped down from the sky and took this prime resting spot away from another pelican (whom, as you have already guessed, I was in the process of photographing!)

My friends who live in Florida told me that they (my friends, not the pelicans!) sometimes go fishing at a place called The St. John's River (I haven't been there.) They said that just as they start to reel the fish in, pelicans often fly down from the air and try to steal the fish right off the fishing poles!

I suggest the pelicans go out and hire themselves a good P.R. agent. They're getting some bad publicity down in "The Sunshine State".

In the meantime... I still have a lot of photos to sort through. I took 400+. Yeah, you read that right! Many are of my friends and "family". Others are scenic views and wildlife shots. There are a lot of birds that I photographed that I still have not been able to identify.

Birds don't seem the least bit shy down in Florida. Here in Massachusetts, as soon as a great blue heron spots a view of my camera, he spreads his wings and he's gone before I get the lens cap off. Down south, they pose. Come to think of it, that's probably why this pelican knocked the other one off this sign. He wanted his share of the spotlight. Aggresion sometimes works.

Interesting creatures, these are!