Had a little tragedy on the ranch, one of the Pelicans hit the wire on the big hi-lines going across the ranch.









The other one is looking awful lonely at the back end of the lake.

Wow, that sucks. We found a buzzard by one of our electric mills.

Ha that's crazy those are some giant birds

I found a coon cooked extra crispy one morning on a jumper wire lol... the well alarm went off and found him while I was checking the outage

The remaining fish in your pond will be happy.

All by itself now.

Blame Putin.

Not much of a threat to the pond, it's over a mile long. The state has it labeled as a lake.

That will teach that pelican to look for greener pastures

A week ago a Blue Heron hit the lines with the same results. I've probably found 40-50 birds underneath those lines, mostly ducks.

Right

Kidding aside, to bad the other one was not on the same flight path

Little off topic but I grew up in FL and seen pelicans all the time and never t a single one of them was white they were all grayish. Anyone know the difference? Is it a different breed or what?

F'n windmills

Surprised a coyote hasn't found him.

That sucks.

Pelicant

Allllllllllllllll by myyyyyyyselllllllllf...

A pelican...

Allllllllllllllll by myyyyyyyselllllllllf...

You know, that wire might have cooked that pelican to a tasty medium rare.

Probably not too late. Just sayin'...

Well it looks like there was 3 Pelicans on the ranch, these two were back at the west end of the lake.

Notice the first pic was taken with my P-80 Nikon at full zoom, this pic was taken with the P-900 at 3/4 zoom. If I get out past that it's hard to keep the image still by hand even with the stabilizer. Rangefinder says they are 730 yards away.

Growing up in West Texas, I don't ever remember seeing a Pelican that far inland. Pretty rare in that area.

It's a first for the ranch.

I think he broke his neck.

We have a few migrate in this area most years both white and gray. Not hard to spot.