Thankyou everyone for the comments left about my last post, since everyone seemed to like the action shots here is a sequence I captured at main lake at Mawson Lakes, Adelaide. My daugter was throwing bread to the pelicans and i was fortunate enough to get these shots
thanks in advance
Klae McGuinness
Looks very aggressive ... great shots
Interesting shots, kamman. However, you might want to have a quiet word in your daughter's ear about whether it's healthy for Pelicans to be fed bread which, of course, isn't part of their natural diet.
Hi Woko, The pelicans are on a lake that the suberb is built around. She actually got a few peices off bread from the approx 50 or so people that were there feedeing them and groups like that are there every day
That's interesting too, kamman. I think Mawson Lakes is in the Salisbury Council area. Salisbury Council has a fine environment record with its wetlands & indigenous vegetation plantings. Perhaps its record is yet to extend to the education of folk about the importance of providing natural food for the local wildlife.
I think that with the lake being so acsessable to private houses and the restaurants and cafes on main street providing seating on the shore off the lake that stopping people feeding the wildlife is going to be extremelly difficult if not impossible. I see hundres off tourists feeding seagulls and ibis hot chips everyday here at Byron Bay. I admit that I dont kow much about birds but I know off several people inmy area feeding kookaburras with mince to entice them in. Is this a good practice? I see kookaburas in my backyard regurally without any food enticement
Great shots kamman! The expression on both birds faces in shot #4 made me laugh so much :)
Thanks for sharing!
Great action shots!
As for the feeding, someone needs to be the one to take action. Perhaps approaching your local council or something about installing signs about the risk of feeding, especially bread, to waterbirds. As for your question about mince, it lacks in calcium which can make their bones more prone top breakage, and can make them overly agressive or dependant on humans for food. It is best practise, and I think more enjoyable, to observe birds going about their natural behaviours without offering food.
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera