The Pelicans

A Cormorant, an unknown bird, a pelican and a sleeping pelican

While down on the coast we couldn't help but notice damage still evident from Hurrican Ike last year. Around the Clear Lake Hilton, you could see where piers that surrounded the hotel, had been washed away. Posts from the now gone piers stuck up out of the water. The interesting thing about the posts though were the Eastern Brown Pelicans. They "decorated" each and every one.

They are endangered, and normally you only see them around the Louisiana coastline. Sometimes though, when moved by a hurricane, they will hang around for a year or so. There were pelicans everywhere. This handsome guy was on watch and waiting for dinner. When he finally left he would fly, dive into the water, eat his fish, and do it again--and again--and again. We watched him for 30 minutes. When we finally left he was still fishing.