Late this afternoon I was at Sunset Bay Park on the Lake Ontario shore East of Oswego watching and photographing about 55 Caspian Terns and I did a double-take when I saw and immature Brown Pelican floating about one hundred yards off shore. So I turned my camera on it. I continued to shoot bursts as it flew toward me and over me so closely that it was difficult to keep it in the viewfinder. As it flew, it was being harassed by any nearby gull and tern in much the same manner as a Red-tailed Hawk would be by a flock of smaller birds.
I got a few nice shots of it in the water, flying solo and being harassed. Unfortunately, I left my laptop at home and I have no way to get the photos off the camera’s SD card. I’ll have to wait until I get back home later Wednesday night to get them into my computer and convert them from RAW into JPEG to get them up to eBird. But I couldn’t wait until then to tell all of you CBC folks about it. Ken Haas Sent from my iPad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
