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Silos, conveyor belt and cormorants
This shot shows the underside of the massive conveyor belt from Wallaroo’s grain silo complex to the jetty where the grain is loaded onto ships (see yesterday’s pic). The support structure is used by hundreds of cormorants for roosting.
And a wider shot:
Both shot in the evening.
Pelican landing
Shots of a pelican landing on perch in Lake Albert:
Approach alongside his mates, then, landing gear down.
Touchdown, balance and store the wings while ignoring the neighbours’ comments.
Then get down to some preening.
More pelicans
and one seagull:
and one pelican in flight:
and coming in to land:
Bigger pics, as ever, on Flickr.
Heading home
Birds flying home over the Coorong.
The colours are mostly artificial. I warmed and tinted the scene in Lightroom as well as boosting the blue of the sky. I like the contrast of the bright highlights and dark undersides of the clouds but the birds needed to be bigger to make the photo a success, I think. Maybe should have selectively un-warmed the foreground grass: looks a little muddy in tone. Ah well, lessons learned.
