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36 comments:
An easy one today that everyone should recognise :)
Wonderful photos, storybook bird!
Thankyou Eliz T :) Are you calling me a book or the pelican? I'm sure there's plenty of stories about Pelicans ... like how one pooped on Joy Eliz's HEAD ! Hhehheee
That 4th photo down has to be the best picture of pelican I have ever seen. Wow!!!! Anon!!!
Really Red Mojo? I thought this lot is nothing in comparison to others taken last year (Australian Pelican in sidebar). Thank you! How much coffee have you had this evening? Heehee
Tsup*!*
What a wonderful bird is the pelican
His beak can hold more
than his belly can
He can hold in his beak
Food enough for a week!
I wonder how in the hell 'e can?
(Dixon Lanier Merritt 1910)
Did you see Storm Boy and Mr Percival the other night snif :( Tsup*!*
Tsup*!* Bimbimbie! I love that poem but missed Storm Boy on telly ... will never forget that movie, I loved it so much!!! Used to have the photographic book from the movie, wonder where it went to - long gone :( I might seek the movie out again on DVD!
Storm Boy is a lovely film for kids, not the Incredibles, but lovely non the less. So very Australian :) It's film like that which make me think David Gulpilil would be so much fun to Direct. Not easy, just fun.
A slim looking bird, must be a young'n... or on Jenny Craig.
love the last shot especially! How close were you?
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The peli does have a slim belly G3TFilms! I saw The Incredibles when grown up, and not the same as Storm Boy, or even similar. 1977 was a long time ago, HERE is a website for David Gulpilil for research reasons :)
Measuring distance involves NUMBERS Simon :O I wasn't too far away but not as close as it appears in the bottom image :)
The only spots I can see is the dots under your exclamation marks Egghead!
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Your comment looks like when someone puts an egg on top of a bottle with a bunsen burner lit underneath which squeeeezes the egg to be trapped inside! THAT must explain your "hee hee"ing BoiledEggInADeckchair!
Is that Egg around again!
Egghead isn't round ElizT, not even oval from being squeezed into the bottom of a bottle!
That pelican could almost pass for a goose in the one picture with his bill under his wing... your pictures are perfect. I love that poem btw, haven't heard it for in years.
I haven't heard that poem for years either TsDuff :) Thanks, there is a Magpie Goose which will be posted later which looks almost the same!
Anonybird, I was being mercenary and actually meant in terms of commercial success. I think Storm Boy managed to crack the 2M mark in '77 which was amazingly impressive for its time. Now children's films, like the Incredibles, spend that on catering.
*forehead slap*
I should have been comparing it too Happy Feet. An Australian children's film containing Birds... with happy feet!
Ooops, I wasn't aware you were talking only about personal gain for wealth, G3TFilms :O I remember Storm Boy was a movie excursion done by most classes from schools for educational reasons. Hhehheee, Aussie birds ARE famous with Happy Feet even if those feet were all the way in the Antarctica! But to keep the Australian film industry healthy means it must be able to make more films for cultural reasons, not primarily about making money at the box office! Hmmmm, you should check out Jack's dance podcast... something about his happy feet might help make you rich ... OH but you already ARE Rich! Hhehhee
Oh the Egg is making me scroll so much! Of course the great "Peli-can poop" story. As for this day's Peli-can shot series, I stopped on the first image. I just leaned on the trees and started dreaming...
A lake near us is on the flight path for Pelicans. Actually, they are headed down to a lake near where I used to live (in Dallas) for the winter. I love to watch the Pelican flotillas go by.
What beautiful photos! I love pictures of long-necked birds in various curled up ways. They're just so lovely! He looks comfy in the last one, but with an eye on what Anony is up to. :)
Somehow there are always 20 or more posts already up by the time I get here. Love the light through the Peli's pouch. And the kestrel shots are great too.
Expected you to ooh and ah when I finally got a good shot of the drongo, but you were uncharacteristically quiet. I don't have to be jealous of your camera anymore.
OH NO! The Egg has control of Ces's mind! Except when a tree is in view ... saved by the trees Ces!
I love the word "flotillas" Debra Kay!
Hhahhaaa, he was keeping an eye on me Melissa, wasn't he! Wonder what would have happened if I'd stepped forward ... :O
One post a day keeps the stress away and the bird stalkers stay Steve! I'll be around to see your Drongo soon, it's school holidays here which effects my blog visiting :)
I'm well aware of Mr Miller's comb comments. It's easy enough for him to say, he's feasting on American budgets and box office successes born from a time when you could get government money to edit films like Mad Max on a steinbeck in your friends lounge room. It's not like that any more... which isn't bad as production values are much better now. But you need to offset the high production costs with box office success if you want a continuing career. Unfortunately Aussies are too good at that.
Rant over :)
Jack rocks da house! If I ever get my children's idea up an running I'd definitely use a funk-star like Jack.
Oooh errrr, I remember those days! Jack will live for at least another ten years if he keeps exercising and eating as much nectar as he does. I challenge you to have your children's idea up and dancing by then! Heehee
I'll easily have it done in ten years... although, I'd be very nervous having a dancing bird on set around the lights. There'd be a puff of smoke and the sweet smell of frying nectar in the air if he landed in the wrong spot.
Best make it a puppet show then G3TFilms! Heehee
Drat!
Actually, I can use a 'cold' lighting fluoro kit. Jack could sit anywhere he wanted to and get nothing more than a slightly warmish tail feather.
Good luck with finding one of those for a reasonable price, the cost will probably go up within the ten years ;) I'd imagine it wouldn't be warmer than when Jack taunts Devil by running back and forth across the fluro light above the fish tank! In fact they perform an exciting duet!
Ha! Yeah, they're not cheap. But I own one anyway :P Yep, they're normal fluro warm, yes, but these lights mimic daylight.
OMG! I hope Jack never falls in, he wouldn't last very long. *gulp*
Hhehhee, we alternate lights which help plants to grow with lights that show off Devil and his prey's colours. Jack would bite his head off! Actually, Jack is what Devil would normally eat if in the wild. He waits for birds to plop their beaks into the water and *CHOMP!* Are you sure a puppet show wouldn't still be safer? HAHA!!
Doh! I'm late again . . I'm with Steve your 'commenters' are early birds! I love Aussie pelicans, they're whiter and pinker than their northern cousins.Dont forget the last scene of Jurassic Park where they fly like dinosaury thingies into the sunset.
Baino, I've only seen Pelicans as North as Queensland. All my birds are suddenly starting to look very intimidating! Heehee
It's a funny bird is a Pelican
It's beak can hold more than its belly can.
I have to say that every time I see on ;-D
Wonderful photographs Anon!
Food enough for a week!
I wonder how in the hell 'e can?
I wish it was that easy packing for our holiday Miladysa :)
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