You can’t be friends with Lisa Coleman and not be all about birds. So here is my first contribution to the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge.
You can join too if you’ve ever taken a picture of a bird that swims and eats fish rather than bread crumbs as the majority of its diet. Here are my choices for this week.
Isn’t he a beauty? I’m assuming he’s a pelican, but don’t quote me.
This might have been a preview for the Australian version of Birds. Sea gulls by the hundreds suddenly swarmed St. Kilda beach goers.
This little cutie walked on water at the Healesville Sanctuary.
This benchmark bird picture is just for Lisa to show you my best eagle photo as of 3-13-2021. This pirate never came down from his perch to dip into the water for a bite to eat.
For more great bird photos watch for Lisa’s Bird Roundup each week. Roundup Week #38. I’m making it my reading list for this week.
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60 responses to “#Bird Weekly Photo Challenge #39 Mostly Australian Birds that Eat Mostly Fish”
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As Lisa said an Australian Pelican. The Duck is a Pacific Black Duck and the eagle is just a silhouette but being on the beach either a White-bellied Sea eagle or and Osprey. Hope that helps Marsha
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Yes, I’m going to label my picture. The eagle is in Oregon, if that makes a difference. Horrible picture. The other pictures are all from Australia. You are awesome, Brian! 🙂
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Sorry if it;s a US bird no way am I to know 🙂
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Sorry about that, Brian. It’s not a great picture anyway. I just wanted Lisa to see how hard I tried to get a decent picture or a bird. I’m not good with birds as a rule. But, like I said, the Australian birds seem to be friendlier. 🙂
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Mostly 😀
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Very nice Australian Pelican photo! 🙂
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Thank you. I found him when I organized! I took lots of great bird pictures in Australia. They are much better at posing than the one’s here. I got one shot of a road runner a couple of days ago, but he blends with the dirt.
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Roadrunners are had to get. I have a good one that I got at Floyd Lamb Park outside of Las Vegas. He was in the park like he was a squirrel or something. He was on the run though. LOL! 🙂
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They can really run, clouds of dust behind them!
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Yep. Just waiting for a Beep beep behind them. 😂
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LOL! 🙂
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Those Pelican’s are amazing! We have them in front of the lake house but missed them this time! 💖
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Ooooo that’s fabulous! We had a lot of geese where we lived in CA, and some guinea hens that someone bought then didn’t want. They took over the neighborhood. 🙂
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Very cool unfortunately I wouldn’t have any chickens etc. because all of them have been taken out by the coyotes and I don’t need any more problems with those things. LOL
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We had that problem too, or our neighbors did. They built big enclosures for the chickens. We eat eggs, but I couldn’t take the every day thing. I had enough trouble getting rid of zucchini and strawberries.
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After awhile it comes down to less is more for me! 💖
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No kidding. I was growing things and not able to use them, and after a while you wonder, “Why am I spending all this time and energy and money and water when people don’t need or want the stuff. If I was a professional farmer, it would have been different, but it was a hobby for me. Chickens would be far worse. That’s why our neighborhood was overrun with guinea hens. They got to be too much trouble for someone.
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For sure and it makes you really appreciate the farmers! My neighbor had 75 guinea fowl, turkeys, lamas, horses, 4 goats, 6 dogs, 6 tortoises… And i wonder why I have coyotes.. 🤣her dogs.
guinea fowl are gone between her dogs and coyotees. Mountain lion took down the goats. Chickens are gone too. well, duh…grrrrr
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Wow! my neighbor had/has 60 cats. She also feeds the raccoons and skunks if they come up on her porch. We have friends who live farther up into wild animal country whose cats eat WITH the raccoons and skunks less than 5 feet from us on the other side of the slider. It’s amazing to watch.
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OMG ow that’s crazy.. 🤣I feel normal now.. hahahaha. I KNOW… we have neighbors like those too..and it is amazing but it totally fouls up their own instincts and attacks more critters!!! ugh. 💖
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It was pretty crazy, but nice lady and her daughter both were dumped on – you know how it is in the country. Then they couldn’t stop feeding them and didn’t have enough resources to neuter them all. It’s a catch 22.
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oh soooo sweet with a good heart for sure. i do know and what a dilemma! 💖
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Yes. I wonder how our buyers are handling the cats. He is allergic. He is also the city police chief.
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Oh my I cannot wait to hear.. Please keep me posted.. 🤣🤣
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I will. The woman is a principal of the middle school in town. So they are an influential couple that just got married, so no kids.
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oh wow, interesting …time will tell.
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I know! I wish I was a little birdie listening in. 🙂
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indeed!!!💖🤣🤣🤣
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Hi Marsha, glad you have some bird photos to share in bird weekly! Your pelican is perfect and well-captured! Lisa’s challenge is doing just that, and I need to get out more and see some birds. As you will read, we may be getting into the house in two weeks, and once there, I have my bird feeders at the ready. Now if I could just get the eagles to nest nearby!
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You should be able to find some. 🙂 I’m so glad your wait is coming to an end! It’s been a super long haul. for you both.
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It will be a relief, Marsha! Then the fun begins! Weirdly, as if we didn’t have enough on our plate, we’re considering buying the lot next door and building a smaller home to rent out. If we did this, we would take our sweet time for sure!
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You can control who your neighbors are, for sure. But it could come back to bite. We owned the property next to us and once we lived there a few months, we enjoyed the privacy too much to sell it or build and rent it. As it turned out, a friend offered to buy it, and we agreed and then sold ours within the next couple of months. So, if nothing else, it buys you privacy, if you like that sort of thing.
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Great point, and I’m not sure I want to lock that much cash into it.
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We bought ours before we bought the house. We were going to build on it , and then the scruffy house next door – a repo was on the market. Vince thought the new buyers might put a business there next to our lovely new home. So we bought it, remodeled it to sell and moved in. End of story. the beautiful house he designed never happened.
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Don’t quote me, but I would say that that is a Great White Pelican.
I love your photography and hope that you will also be sharing some Black and White photos at #SundayStills this week.
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Hi Donna, Thanks so much. Is he a gorgeous bird? I will definitely check out Terri’s post today. I try not to miss Sunday Stills even if I run a little late in my responses. 🙂
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Love the Australian Pelican. (I only know from the comment). I enjoy comparing the different beaks on the beach birds.
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There’s a great topic for you. Since I’m getting into the bird photos, you should do a post with Lisa or link to some of her posts about beaks. Beaks at the Beach, Beaking Deals?
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Pelicans would be a good topic. I started thinking and recording some notes. I need to do much more though before even starting to create a draft.
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That’s your expertise, though, Frank. You love to research and share information. 🙂
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nice to know that sea gulls annoy beachgoers all over the world 🙂
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LOL We have our share in CA, too. I’d never seen them mob the beach goers like that, though.
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if someone has food on the beach, they are going to get swarmed…
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True that. We were a good bit away with a telephoto lens, so we just watched them. But it was amazing. 🙂
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there is something about seeing a large flock of birds together, especially starlings…
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Lovely photos. Yes, it is a pelican. 🙂
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Thank you, Norah. I knew someone would know for sure. It was one of the most beautiful pelicans I’ve ever seen. Have you ever been to the Healesville Sanctuary?
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I haven’t. One day …
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I lost the thread of our conversation, Norah, So I’ll just put a smiley face! Lots of love. 🙂
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I hadn’t been to the Sanctuary you mentioned – Healsville, I think, maybe. Smiley faces are good. 🙂
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That’s what I do when I can’t hear someone in a meeting, too. 🙂
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Sometimes you need to be careful doing that. You don’t know what you might be smiling at. 🤣
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True that. My solution was to retire and only attend meetings I want to attend for fun. 🙂
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Good thinking. 🙂
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Yes, the first one is an Australian pelican and you captured him beautifully.
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Thanks, Carol. Do you remember what the other birds are?
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No, I can’t help you with the others.
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Oh well, there may be some bird experts out there. Maybe Leanne knows. I have signs for some of them.
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