The village of Sainte-Anne on the Guadeloupe island is well known for its beautiful white sand beach. I have done there nice bird watching sessions between two baths. A small flock of Brown Pelicans has posed for the picture near the beach.

The Brown Pelicans were accompanied by Royal Terns and Magnificent Frigatebirds which were fishing in the neighbourhood. I regret having preferred bathing instead of taking pictures of these Frigatebirds. I need to travel there again!!

The Brown Pelican Family poses in front of the Soufrière volcano, hidden under the clouds. You can easily recognize juveniles with their upper part dull brown colour and under part white colour.

This Brown Pelican will soon dive to fish. Several of them will do the same at the same place. This is certainly due to the presence of a shoal of small fishes.

This was a good subject to try the high speed continuous shooting mode in order to get a picture of the Pelican just before hitting water. Unfortunately the memory card was almost full and everything was already packed inside my luggage. The airplane back to metropolitan France was planned to take off in just a few hours.

This juvenile Brown Pelican does a little balancing act at the beach of Grande Anse d'Arlet.

The webbed feet do not seem to be a problem for perching on small supports.

We had the pleasure of attending (and participating in) a beach seining session at Anse Turin near Saint-Pierre. Brown Pelicans came to participate but you have to fight to keep your prey.

And that's it, the fish is inside the pouch!

Return to calm after fishing.

The numerous Brown Pelicans attracted by seining make it easy to shoot many photos. Here's one in flight.

Another view of Brown Pelican in flight.

Here is the normal method of catching fish, by diving.