Hi, Thomas, good to hear from you--especially since you're so pleased with this movie. I am too. Seeing more than a thousand of these pelicans together was an amazing spectacle!

I like it, Knut, that you notice the components of a beautiful video: filming, editing, and commentary. I've been having a very busy--but also interesting--week, thank you. I wish you the same.

Diane, hi. Good to hear from you. And thank you for the sweet praise. Indeed it was an amazing sight. I felt privileged to witness it and film it. Despite those bulbous honkers of theirs, the pelicans are elegant birds.

Thanks. I especially like that "as usual" part. 😏

What a pleasure it is to find a comment like yours waiting for me, Maggie. I've got well over 200 movies, so you can browse all you want. And thanks again for the nice things you had to say.

@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Jo, I found you a while back and I think I've watched all of them! I have also shared your KZfaq address with my birding FB Page and other friends as well.

Maggie, I appreciate your enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing my movies with others as well. I need all the publicity I can get. 😏

@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Jo I've been a minor birder for many years, but only recently became much more interested. That's how I found your channel. Good luck!

@@MHarenArt And good luck with seeing the birds you want to. You might be surprised to learn that my interest in birds is fairly recent too. My husband's been watching them for forty years, and six years ago he pestered me to try filming them, since I knew something about film editing. I didn't want to--too hard. And I've never been a birder. But he kept after me, and I'm glad he did. Now it's more than a hobby; it's an obsession. And I finally share his interest in the birds. Better late than never.I'd be interested to know which of my films. you found most useful in helping you be a better birder.

That is a lovely compliment to receive, and it's comments like yours that keep me striving to do my best on each new video and to continue to improve my technical skills. Thank you.

Aren't they one of the coolest birds you've ever laid eyes on, Pamela? And I had a ton of fun making this movie about them. Glad you liked it!

I wish you could have seen the spectacle firsthand, Hans, but I'm glad you enjoyed it this way. Thanks for your praise.

I was thrilled to get such interesting footage and just as thrilled to share it with you, Renato.

Yep, Chuck, those pelicans deserve to be celebrities--more than Taylor Swift does.

I look forward to hearing from you each time I post, Cathy. I'm interested in what aspects of the films strike you as memorable. I also loved the two shots you mentioned. The one shot I hesitated to use was the one of them catching fish at the point where I describe them as horses on a merry-go-round. I cannibalized that clip from a five year old video on the same topic. It makes my point perfectly, in a way that none of the footage I got last week did. But it's not crisp. Back then, I was not so particular about using clear footage. If anybody would have picked up on the quality of the shot, I think it would be you. Did you notice?

I watched your wonderful video again Jo and I didn't really need to (not because I don't want to see it again) since what struck me initially was what you said about horses on a merry go round and how that metaphor was something I never would have thought of. The clip worked in that regard and it might not be up to your current standards (which there is nothing wrong with) but nothing stood out as a distraction from the flow of your film. Your narration and images stay in sync and that's what makes your movies exceptional.

Thanks for taking the time to watch it again, Cathy, because I'm interested in your take on whether the shot stands out as being lower quality. (It is lower quality, but at least it doesn't stand out--and as a videographer yourself, you'r a good judge of that.) And you are the first person to mention something that I work very hard at--getting the action to sync with the narration.

and also those eye grabbing titles ; )

Oh, thanks. Those are easy actually. My editing software provides them.

Your confusion is about where these pelicans are found is understandable, David. Brown Pelicans dive for fish in saltwater locales, and that's probably why you and many people think of pelicans as coastal birds. But the White Pelicans are center of the continent birds. They breed in central southern Canada and northern U.S. Yes, I did record the footage myself and considered myself privileged to witness such a spectacle. As for Lesley, you bet I know her. I wish I had the patience to get birds to trust me and come to me that she has. Where she lives in Nova Scotia, she has relatively few species to observe, but she makes the most of what there is, and she's a lovely young lady. Thanks for complimenting my work. I promise to hold to as high standards in the future as I have been expecting from myself so far.