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Saturday beach day, as usual. Happened upon a fleet of Brown Pelicans catching some lunch. Brown Pelicans are the only pelican species that dives for its food like this. From heights of 50-60 foot in the air, and reaching speeds of 40mph. They have evolved airsacs that allow them to dive from such height without damaging themselves.

They were likely going after a school of mullet. The mullet like to jump out of the water and a few minutes before the fleet of pelicans arrived the mullet were jumping right here. Sorry for the far off photos. only had a 200mm zoom w me today, they were a bit far off. Crop photos of distant subjects.

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and unlike the WEAK pelican, the EPIC F-35 is capable of STAYING UNDER INDEFINITELY