16 thoughts on “Pelicans!”

  1. Wow I need to think about this for a little. My experience with both species of North American pelican has always been on sandy beach and offshore systems. This picture fundamentally sort of fucks me up.

  2. db,
    This is on the northwest coast, they take what is available. The Pacific coast tends to be more temperate than the Atlantic. In addition, hurricanes tend the sweep sand onto the East coast up to the Bay of Fundy.

  4. As a marine biologist I am aware of that WaltTheMan. My point was that I am not used to seeing that sort of imarery not that I don’t realize that it exists.

  5. Db,
    I was an engineer, physicist and comp sci type in college. I took night courses at Vassar, New Paltz and Marist for about thirty years in just about any subject that tickled me at company expense. I netted four more degrees along that route, one was in Marine Biology. You did teach me a new word – ‘imarery’.

  7. That’s terrific Walt…I think you have told us all about this before though. Why is marine biology capitalized?

  8. The Cape tends to interfere with much of the flow as does the shoals of George’s Bank and the temperature density barriers which help to make the waters of the Gulf of Maine sort of isolated. Localized circulation driven by the drainage of the major watersheds also has significant impact on sediment movement deposition and erosion.

  9. Spencer Apollonio’s brief text is a nice summary but I am sure you are already familiar with that one.

  10. The New England Acadian Shoreline by D. Johnston is sort of interesting considering its copyright.

  11. No degrees, just observation of Pacific coast pelicans.

    On their ‘way home’ for the night – at sunset/dusk -the Pelicans fly about a foot above the ocean, close to the shoreline. Single file and two abreast – by the dozens. Around Natural Bridges (Santa Cruz, CA) the viewing is above the ‘parade’ and it is quite an impressive sight.

  12. weird that the sediments found lack significant evidence of the biological origins of the southern beaches but are composed of glacial till and basaltic and granitic materials.

  13. 2ebbandflow
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    It isn’ appropriate but I sort of had a pet brown pelican on one of those two times when I lived in Florida. It became habituated to our boat. They are cool birds. I used to help remove fishing gear from them both times I lived there.

  14. dbadass: “My experience with both species of North American pelican has always been on sandy beach and offshore systems. This picture fundamentally sort of fucks me up.”
    ~~~~~~
    Having only lived on the West Coast I found your post intriguing as here we have those wonderful cliffs.
    I’m fortunate enough to live just miles from the southern end of the SF Bay – and just 30 min. away from the ocean.
    If you ever venture west – take time to go observe the California Condor. Now that is an impressive species. The re-introduction is a one-step forward; two steps back:

    http://www.ventanaws.org/species_condors/

    http://www.mycondor.org/

  15. Oh I have been west just not for a bit. Last time I was down in Baja and before that much farther north. I have been in your neighborhood but not for quite sometime.
    cheers-

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