BENICIA PELICAN LOG
2011
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September 28, 2011 (9:20am)
3 white pelicans feeding near shore, Southampton Bay. One flew off, landed mid-strait. Then a 4th came paddling from mid-strait in toward the remaining 2 (a rare long-distance paddler!). The fly-away flew back to join its mates after about 10 minutes.
September 27, 2011 (12:15pm)
After a week or two of no pelicans at all, we saw 2 brown pelicans on the islands, foot of First Street, fairly high tide.
...time passed with a very few occasional sightings, not noted here.
August 10, 2011 (2:30pm)
5 white pelicans on the islands, foot of First Street.
August 9, 2011 (4:30pm)
2 white pelicans on the islands, foot of First Street.
July 27, 2011 (3:45pm)
7 white pelicans on the islands, foot of First Street.
July 19, 2011 (11:45am)
R & MS saw 8 white pelicans on the islands, foot of First Street. Another one flew over and landed in the shallows between First Street and the Marina.
July 19, 2011 (11:30am)
R & MS saw 1 white pelican mid-water on Southampton Bay from the Benicia State Recreation Area, low tide.
July 16, 2011 (3:00pm)
R & MS saw 7 white pelicans on the islands, foot of First Street.
July 15, 2011 (7:00pm)
R & MS saw 2 white pelicans on the islands, foot of First Street.
July 14, 2011 (4:05pm)
R & MS saw 2 white pelicans on the islands, foot of First Street.
July 12, 2011 (10:55am)
R & MS saw 3 white pelicans floating mid-Carquinez Strait, at around 1300 block of West K Street.
July 9, 2011 (4:35pm)
R & MS saw 1 white pelican on the islands at foot of First Street.
July 8, 2011 (11:25am)
R & MS saw 4 white pelicans on the islands at foot of First Street.
July 6, 2011 (10:35am, noon)
R & MS saw 3 white pelicans on the islands at foot of First Street. (There may have been a 4th, partially obscured.) Later from the Benicia State Recreation Area, we saw 2 floating and feeding near shore in Southampton Bay.
July 5, 2011 (9:05am)
R & MS saw two white pelicans floating close to shore between the 9th Street Park and Matthew Turner Park. We walked from Commodore Jones Point to get a closer look, but when we got to West 10th, the bird had traded places with us, landing on a rock just off the point. Both birds, and a third one, flew off to the west, gliding low over the water into Southampton Bay.
July 4, 2011 (Noon - 12:30pm)
R & MS saw 3 white pelicans floating in Southampton Bay; first one, then all three took flight, spiralled to get height, then soared high above West K and the wetlands. Around the same time, we saw 4 others in the distant sky, also playing on the currents above the Bay and wetlands. We drove downtown, and around 12:30pm, we saw 1 lone pelican on the island at the foot of First Street.
July 3, 2011 (10:30-11:30 am)
At 10:30am, R & MS saw 18 white pelicans floating in Southampton Bay, soon joined by 2 more. Around the same time, we saw 5 in the distant sky (perhaps over downtown?) heading east. We drove downtown, and at 11am, we saw 1 lone pelican on the island at the foot of First Street. Then, heading home at 11:30, we saw them in the sky, so we stopped at the 9th Street Park and watched two groups totalling 20 doing wind patterns high over Southampton Bay, probably the same 20 we had seen feeding earlier.
July 1, 2011 (9:35 am)
R & MS saw 12 white pelicans floating in Southampton Bay. lots of movement, actively feeding.
June 30, 2011 (9:15 am)
MS and Susannah saw 7 white pelicans floating in Southampton Bay.
June 18, 2011 (11 am)
MS saw 7 white pelicans floating in Southampton Bay.
June 13, 2011 (11:35 am)
MS saw 2 white pelicans circling over Safeway (First St. & Military). Minutes later, she saw 9 more heading basically East, making beautiful patterns over West 7th and West Military.
June 3, 2011 (3:15 pm)
R & MS saw a large white pelican, alone on Little Pelican Island, foot of First Street.
May
20, 2011 (around 1pm)
R & MS saw a lone pelican on Little Pelican Island, foot of First Street.
May
20, 2011 (around 11am)
MS saw ten or twelve swimming patterns in Southampton Bay.