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American White Pelican on the Salton Sea in California. We drove out to the area to see if there were migratory birds as there likely would be this time of year. Saw many Egrets and an abundance of white Pelicans. I had a polerizer on my lens to boost the colours but with the sky and sea I had a lot of blue Pelicans. One of these days i will shoot in RAW so doing things wrong is easier to fix!!

Greater Egret on a rock on the Salton Sea with American white Pelicans in the background. the Salton Sea is on the flyway for many of the migrating birds so great fun to go out with binoculars and the camera.

The Salton Sea is a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, predominantly in California's Imperial Valley. The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside counties in Southern California. Like Death Valley, it is below sea level. Currently, its surface is 226 ft (69 m) below sea level. The deepest area of the sea is 5 ft (1.5 m) higher than the lowest point of Death Valley. The sea is fed by the New, Whitewater, and Alamo rivers, as well as agricultural runoff drainage systems and creeks. Wikipedia

Driving the highway west from Calgary over two mountain ranges to the coast to go south to the desert and avoid snowstorms...we had about 7 hours of snow!! Really beautiful :-)

A through the windshield shot Lorien:-)

I liked this sad broken windmill in the sunset on our way home from a search for Eagles.

The sunset coming back into the city and it struck me that I was looking at two huge sources of local energy. Not tack sharp as it was a through the car window capture....