Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material
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Brown Pelican, Nest Material

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Brown Pelican  nests don’t amount to much and if this is all you can deliver at one time it is a good thing.

Brown Pelican Flying In With Nesting Material
Brown Pelican Flying In With Nesting Material

I try to avoid “the hand of man” in my nature images, but the closeness of this sign  and the blurred boat above show how intimately entwined these birds are with humans.

Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material
Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material

Hmm, which one is MY mate?

Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material
Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material

A very delicate pass-off maneuver with those big beaks.

Success!

Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material
Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material

The bird on the nest didn’t get up so I suspect there might already be eggs or new chicks under her. From a bobbing boat you don’t always get to see the full story.

Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material
Brown Pelican Bring Mate Nesting Material

Baby Pelican Cruise with Coastal Expeditions, leaving from Daniel Island on the Wando River side down to Charleston Harbor and the New Crab Bank just off Shem Creek.

Other posts from this adventure 

Charleston Harbor, SC
June 23, 2023

5 thoughts on “Brown Pelican, Nest Material”

  3. What a wonderful photo sequence – you even caught the hand-off of the stick! Watching those big bills manage the exchange must have been exciting.

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