A pair of images - one AF, one MF

I spent early yesterday morning with the shorebirds. A pair of ring-billed gulls wheeled above Shoreline Golf Course (1000mm, autofocus): 
http://tinyurl.com/y6py3x
And the double-crested cormorants were doing their usual winter chorus-line moves on Shoreline's boat dock. A much larger brown pelican in breeding plumage joined them around 9:00AM (1000mm, manual focus): 
http://tinyurl.com/y7b5wc
Brown pelicans usually migrate south to La Jolla and Baja for winter breeding, but this guy was hanging around here for some reason. He flew off to paddle around Shoreline Lake after awhile. (Sorry about the decapitated cormorant in the foreground.) 

All comments welcome.

Mark Bohrer
Wildlife Photography on the Urban Edge
www.mountain-and-desert.com


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