pelicans

Here's a  pelican grooming--possibly trying to attract--

the attention of this handsome devil.

bad birdie

We have Snowy Egrets on the East Coast, but you'd really have to go to a wildlife sanctuary, or to some other out-of-the-way place to see one.

So I was surprised to see this fellow just strolling around the Oceanside Pier, trying to look nonchalant. I wondered if I missed noticing a female bird he was considering trying to get to know.

  

Until a fisherman walked away from his bait, and the egret quickly moved in and snatched a fish. He must do this regularly, as he seemed to have it down to a routine.

 

Here he is looking more like a wild thing.

oh thank heaven for 7 eleven?

I saw a rainbow the other day--one that actually went across the sky in an arc, the way a child's drawing does. I have taken a few other pictures of rainbows, but I only saw this one other time, and didn't have a camera. I took quite a few shots, trying to make the most of the rainbow's setting--a busy highway here in Oceanside.

No matter how many pictures I took , or where I stood, I seemed to get this 7 Eleven sign in the photo.

I nearly laughed out loud when I crossed the street to see what I could get from there--and the rainbow seemed to be making the proverbial crock of gold out of the 7 Eleven sign.