Day 17 Captiva Videos

This post includes videos made of the Brown Pelicans on the beach.  To view the videos you must go to my blog by clicking the link at bottom of this email.  When you go to the blog,  click on the arrow on each video to view.

Added after published:
The videos can be watched full screen by clicking in lower right corner of the playing video.
The first video caught a dolphin swimming by which I captured as a photo on the stopped video:

Day 17 Captiva Post 1

We woke to the sounds of rain this morning but it did not last long,   We had our usual coffee and pastries and the we both walked over to the beach and what a amazing sight we saw.....hundreds, yes hundreds of brown pelicans were feeding  at the shoreline stretching out as far as the eye could see.   We watched this sight for over an hour ...Al sitting in an abandoned chair on the beach and me snapping photos and recording several videos of the feeding frenzy.   I changed the banner on this blog seen above to one of the photos.

Stay tune....I will be posting videos of the pelicans later.

 After the thrilling time at the beach,  we returned to the cottage for French Toast bagel (from the farmers' market) and more coffee.  Later we had lunch of Tuna Fish sandwiches with Tomato.   We spent the cloudy afternoon on the porch.....I worked on notes for my blog and posted some entries and Al read the afternoon away.
Easy dinner tonight of PF Chang frozen dinner-

Day 5 Captiva

Thursday morning began for me with an early  walk on the beach about 8:30.  Al was busy on the porch doing surveys and email. I was amazed by the sight of  hundreds of Brown Pelicans feeding and swimming all along the coast line for as far as I could see in both directions.

  I arrived just in time to observe them for a few minutes before they

slowly began to fly away a few at a time.

I have never seen this many  pelicans in one place and certainly not on this beach.  There were only a few other birds on the shore -couple of willets, plovers, gulls, ruddy turnstone, snowy  egret....

After returning from my walk,  I prepared  pasta (leftover)  with eggs and served with toast and juice.
We spent the afternoon at the Pool.  Dinner tonight was grilled steak by Grillmaster Al with roasted garlic/rosemary potatoes, mushrooms, and green salad.  FYI rosemary was fresh picked from outside the cottage.