Friday Night Photos Seaside Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 5:00pm

Happy Friday everyone. As always, post any photos you like.

The camera club I belong to had it's monthly outing Tuesday morning at La Jolla Cove. This time of year the cove is a great place to photograph Brown Pelicans (many in breeding colors) and other shore birds.

Brown Pelican (breeding)

Black Oystercatcher

Juvenile Western Gull

Whimbrel

Brown Pelican

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 6:10pm

Hi Social

I'm glad you enjoyed a morning at the Seaside. I really enjoy seeing how you've captured the pelicans.
They illustrate the shape and power of the pelican. The shape of the bird from beak to tail looks so well made for powerful flying.

Here's something more delicate, but also powerful in its determination to live forever. In this case it is an indoor plant(Oxalis) that needs almost no attention to survive.

Enjoy the evening all.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 6:57pm

Evening, Janis

@janis b
Very nice shot. I love the contrasting lighting and colors of the subject and background.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 10:06pm

very nice image Janis

@janis b Neat photo Janis. Here in the states Oxalis is the genus of Wood-Sorrel, a forb with a nice magenta flower. Oxalis Drummondi. The Yellow Wood-Sorrel is actually a diff. genus. Thanks for the nice pic! Hope all is well!

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Submitted by janis b on Sat, 01/15/2022 - 10:03pm

Hi dystopian

@dystopian

Oxalis Drummondi is the common outdoor variety here too. It is impossible to remove all the tiny bulbs from the veggie garden. It’s only redeeming factor, as far as I know is that the leaves and flowers are pretty. The one I have as a house plant was cultivated and given to me 15 years ago. It is Oxalis triangularis, and beside the rich colour of the leaves my favourite thing about it is that the leaves look like a butterfly during the day, and transform at night into a moth, when it closes its leaves.

All the best

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 6:33pm

Deep water sailors tend to try avoiding breaking surf

for reasons of boat bottoms meeting unforgivable shore strata

the shoreline is better appreciated from the land side and winged creatures

thanks for your bird shots!

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 7:03pm

Evening, QMS

@QMS
That's one big wave! Laird Hamilton should have been out there riding it.

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 7:05pm

What's that old saying ..

something about a pelican can hold more in it's beak than it's belly can ?
I forget the actual wording of it.

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 7:31pm

I enjoyed finding this ...

@QMS

“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week!
But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?”

― Dixon Lanier Merritt
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/550082-a-wonderful-bird-is-the-pelican-...

Submitted by humphrey on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 7:11pm

Great images.

A few of them look like they were taken from a drone.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 8:17pm

Thank you, Humphrey.

@humphrey
The bird in flight images were shot with a long lens from a bluff about 20 ft above sea level.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 7:34pm

Snowing here........

Thanks for hosting SP. Lovely avians. Looks very warm.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 7:41pm

Hi Bollox

@Bollox Ref

WTF is that? Spooky it is, but what looks like a toy truck covered in snow under the tree doesn't make any sense to me.

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 8:15pm

Hey Janis

@janis b

Taken on the local golf course. It's a giant roller for the greens.

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Gëzuar!!
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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 8:30pm

I should have known,

@Bollox Ref

coming from a golfing family. It's still so mysterious.

ps. my father painted his golf balls red with my mother's nail polish so he could find them on the snow covered course.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 8:25pm

Evening, BR

@Bollox Ref
It was a nice day. Sunny and 70.
Cool looking photo.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 7:39pm

Last look at the sun

Great shots of the pelicans! Very nice.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 8:29pm

Hi, Snoopy

@snoopydawg
Beautiful sunset photo.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 10:10pm

beautiful photo SD

@snoopydawg great photo SD! Beautiful!

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 10:03pm

great pix SP!

Outstanding photos SP! Beautiful work! Wonderful birds! Love that Zep song too, it was instant at first hear, what a great piece of music it is. Thanks for the pix!

Hope all are well!

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 10:39pm