
Banded.
Juvenile brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), on Mill Creek, at the ruins of the Water Street wharf in the Phoebus community of Hampton, Virginia.

Banded.
Juvenile brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), on Mill Creek, at the ruins of the Water Street wharf in the Phoebus community of Hampton, Virginia.

Juvenile brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis), on Mill Creek, at the ruins of the Water Street wharf in the Phoebus community of Hampton, Virginia.

Juvenile brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis), on Mill Creek, at the ruins of the Water Street wharf in the Phoebus community of Hampton, Virginia.

A raft of ring-bills.
Ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) at Fort Monroe National Monument, Hampton, Virginia. There were about 300 birds in this fleet.
Please click photo for an enlarged view.

A raft of ring-bills.
Ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) at Fort Monroe National Monument, Hampton, Virginia. There were about 300 birds in this fleet.
Please click photo for an enlarged view.

Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), on Mill Creek, at the ruins of the Water Street wharf in the Phoebus community of Hampton, Virginia.
I spent a pleasant hour watching and shooting an entire squadron of pelicans during my Virginia trip. Expect to see more.

Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), on Mill Creek, at the ruins of the Water Street wharf in the Phoebus community of Hampton, Virginia.
I spent a pleasant hour watching and shooting an entire squadron of pelicans during my Virginia trip. Expect to see more.

Bodie Island lighthouse. Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina.

Bodie Island lighthouse. Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina.

All face west.
Willets (Tringa semipalmata), American avocets (Recurvirostra americana), and Canada geese (Branta canadensis) on a Pea Island mudflat.