{"id":430,"date":"2007-12-23T15:33:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/pelican-flight-in-butter-light\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T03:26:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:26:29","slug":"pelican-flight-in-butter-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/pelican-flight-in-butter-light.html","title":{"rendered":"Pelican Flight in Butter Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

See our Guide to Photographing Pelicans in La Jolla<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are my two favorites from this morning. First is a brown pelican<\/a> (Pelecanus occidentalis<\/a><\/em>) in sweet morning light, taken just as the sun rose high enough to clear Mt. Soledad and throw light on the pelicans on the cliff. Second is a shot showing the Scripps Institute of Oceanography research pier<\/a> in the background. When I was in grad school at UCSD<\/a>, I used to work in the Norpax building<\/a> on the SIO campus (upper right in the photo), overlooking the ocean.<\/p>\n

\"Brown<\/a><\/p>\n

Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage.
\nImage ID: 20051<\/a>
\nSpecies: Brown Pelican<\/a>, Pelecanus occidentalis<\/i><\/a>, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: La Jolla<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Brown<\/a><\/p>\n

Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage.
\nImage ID: 20053<\/a>
\nSpecies: Brown Pelican<\/a>, Pelecanus occidentalis<\/i><\/a>, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: La Jolla<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See our Guide to Photographing Pelicans in La Jolla. Here are my two favorites from this morning. First is a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in sweet morning light, taken just as the sun rose high enough to clear Mt. Soledad and throw light on the pelicans on the cliff. Second…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,193],"tags":[212,303],"class_list":{"0":"post-430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pelicans-of-la-jolla","8":"category-seabird","9":"tag-birds","10":"tag-pelicans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}