A big white bird - Pelican!

Tweet Yesterday, two birding friends of mine hit the jackpot at East Fork SP.  They had a Cattle Egret, American White Pelican (love them), and a Franklin's Gull in the same morning.  I wasn't able to get down there to see the pelican.  I have only seen one other white pelican, that one also at East Fork.

Today, I refound the pelican flying high above the beach. It went out of sight 3 times only to reappear over the beach and then disappear east again.  Hopefully, it will stick around for a while.  It acted like it wanted to land on the beach a couple of times, but decided not to.  I was able to get some pics in the poor light.

Such an awesome and out of place looking bird!  

The Franklin's Gull was also still on the beach.  This has been a very good year for Franklin's Gulls.  It seems that every other day this fall East Fork has hosted them.  I want to thank those that have found and promptly reported these awesome birds so that others can enjoy them!

Franklin's Gull saying, yeah, yeah, you all are looking for the big white bird!  

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Red-necked invasion repeat?

Tweet It is looking like this is going to be another fantastic northern bird year like last year.  It's only October and many northern birds are already appearing.

These two Red-necked Grebes were hanging out today in the same spot I got them last year at East Fork State Park.  They were to the right of the beach.

And this is how close they came to a few of us:

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