Got to do a couple of days R&R in Florida and joined in the Space Coast Birding Festival. Lots of fun and new birds to add to the life list. Still working through about 4,000 shots!!! This is a boat trip I took to Pelican Island, a federally protected refuge for birds. This is just one portion of the island, which has weirdly sorted itself out into groups of roosting birds, each species pretty much staking out parts of the island and returning to that some locations, night after night, year after year. This pic has a couple of brown pelicans in front (along with a wood stork with its back to us) and a brown pelican flying over, white pelicans stacked in their typically location and more brown pelicans in the trees. So, just pelicans and the one stork in this shot but other parts of the island just to the left of this shot you have white ibis, egrets, many more storks and a variety of gulls. Interesting area and a wonderful trip.
