{"id":51,"date":"2025-01-26T20:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T20:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/?p=51"},"modified":"2025-01-26T20:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T20:37:05","slug":"photographing-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/photographing-pelicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White Pelicans are among the most interesting birds that frequent the prairies in the summer.&nbsp; They are big. In fact, very big.&nbsp; They are one of the heaviest flying birds in the world with an adult weighing up to 19 pounds.&nbsp; It is a magnificent sight to see a group soar overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-gdk_20240414_D505101.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a photography point of view they are terrific subjects.&nbsp; Being big, they give us a lot to shoot at, but they tend to be happiest on islands, meaning that they are usually a long ways off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested in seeing them or taking pictures, check out the larger sloughs and lakes on the prairies.&nbsp; Around Calgary, Frank Lake, McGregor Lake, Weed Lake and the lower Red Deer River are good places to look.&nbsp; Take binoculars as they will tend to be in the middle of the lake or hanging out on islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an aside, the horn that some have on their beak denote that they are a breeding adult.&nbsp; It is only present during the breeding season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Pelicans are among the most interesting birds that frequent the prairies in the summer.&nbsp; They are big. In fact, very big.&nbsp; They are one of the heaviest flying birds in the world with an adult weighing up to 19 pounds.&nbsp; It is a magnificent sight to see a group soar overhead. From a photography [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pod"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-gdk_20240414_D505101.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skookumdreams.com\/website_2345438c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}