Friday 5 August 2005
10:14 p.m.

One day I had to pull over to the side of the road on the way into town, to see what a flock of large birds coasting across the sky was. For a change I had remembered to take the binoculars.

Once I saw that they were pelicans, I turned north and startled another flock of them out of the water. It was a stunning sight but I was too late with the camera to catch them at all close. As usual.

As a wildlife photographer I will never make my living.