Pelican Dive

[Stan]

All pelican species have a throat pouch which they use to skim the water and pick up fish close to the surface. Brown pelicans are the only species that dive on fish, either from a sitting position on the water of from in flight and our challenge was to capture the pelican in a dive at the moment its beak breaks the water. Quite difficult as sometimes they just fly in and land and even with 10 FPS the shots were either too early or too late, until one of the last beach sessions when I captured this one

Stan

1/1600, f8, ISO 400, 300mm

[Nathaniel]

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Gorgeous shot.

[the black fox]

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well caught stan

[rajjayaraj]

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Great shot Stan,
Raj

[Bill53]

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Stunning shot Stan.

Bill.

[Stan]

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Cheers guys

Really enjoyed watching the pelicans and took more shots than I know what to do with

Stan

[Tigger]

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cracking shot Stan

[Stan]

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Cheers Ian

Stan

[Wrinklyrocker]

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Your patience paid off with this lovely image.

[tesarver]

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Well done Stan +

Tom

[Parsen66]

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Fantastic Stan

[DaveG001]

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Brilliant shot Stan
Cheers
Dave

[Dawesy]

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Thats a great shot

[Stan]

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thanks for looking guys

It really was a matter of lucky timing. Here is another, from a different day, caught just a little too early and not quite as sharp

Stan

[planetc]

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Very cool