Soaring
An adult brown pelican soars above the Pacific Ocean. The pelicans layover at Yaquina Head on Oregon's central coast for a few weeks in the fall. This picture was taken in the middle of October 2005. This is a very simple picture but I'm very fond of it. Our cat Scout was taken with it as well, she took a swing at the monitor while I was editing it but fortunately no damage was done.
Diagonal
This picture gives a better impression of how large the wingspan of the pelicans is compared to their bodies. The birds were soaring on the swirling winds near the lighthouse at Yaquina Head on the Oregon coast. When I think of soaring, I think of a bird slowly sailing along, but these birds were moving. You didn't have much time to track them from the time they came into view and then disappeared again beyond the cliff.
