Glynn Wilson

GULF SHORES, Ala. — At least one great blue-heron seems to still make a home around the fishing of Little Lagoon and the pass on West Beach in Gulf Shores. There used to be an entire colony. I photographed a dead one here on October 11, 2010.

The brown pelican population seems to be coming back to the area. I spotted and photographed several fairly large flocks from the Flora-Bama Lounge on the Alabama-Florida line to the end of West Beach and the Fort Morgan peninsula over the past couple of days (see below).

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This pelican was fishing in the re-opened Little Lagoon Pass. Back in July, 2010, I documented a noticeable absence of bird life when the oil first made landfall along the beaches of coastal Alabama..

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A Gulf brown pelican fishing the Little Lagoon area. See flock below…

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One of three distinct flocks of brown pelicans spotted on the one year anniversary of the BP oil and chemical calamity on the Gulf Coast.

Tags: Some Wildlife Returns to Gulf Coast After Oil Gusher

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