I Was Here First
by Angie Mossburg
Title
I Was Here First
Artist
Angie Mossburg
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
One sunny Saturday morning at White Rock Lake outside of Dallas a Double Crested Cormorant was soaking up the sun on a submerged tree when an American White Pelican decided he would also like to soak up some sun on this submerged tree. The Cormorant, feeling a bit testy, looked like he did not welcome the intrusion. I watched and my camera clicked away as the pelican edged closer and the beaks spread wider. The series of photos taken at the time are hilarious but this one in particular shows the height of the conversation between these two birds.
American white pelicans are often seen in the company of double-crested cormorants. While they often forage for fish together, they don't usually eat the same fish and they don't hunt at the same depths of the water.
While the two birds usually peacefully coexist, pelicans do sometimes steal food from cormorants, particularly as the cormorants return to the surface with their catch.
Just think, this image could be in your home printed in sizes up to 6 feet!
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Featured in the following Fine Art America Groups:
A Woman's Touch- 09/10/2022
Created by Southern Artists - 09/10/2022
Animal Photographs - 9/2022
Beautiful Birds - 9/2022
Beach Moment - 9/2022
Water Forms - 9/2022
Scenes From A Beach - 9/2022
Your Story of Art - 9/2022
1 A Day Waiting Room Art - 9/2022
Wild Birds of the World - 9/2022
Fine Art America Professionals - 9/2022
The Art Workshop - 9/2022
Greatest of All Time - 9/2022
Animals and Birds In the Wild - 9/2022
The Top 50 Features - 9/2022
Art District - 9/2022
The Artist Group - 9/2022
Art and Photography Submissions to PKA - 9/2022
Avian Photography - 9/2022
Comment for Comment - 9/2022
Art - It is Good For You - 9/2022
Your Very Best Photography - 9/2022
New FAA Uploads Limit One Per Day - 9/2022
Wonder of Wings - 9/2022
The Art of FAA - 9/2022
Mind Blowing Photography - 10/2022
Just Perfect - 10/22
Weekly Animal Artwork - 12/2022
Your Best Work - 12/2022
Birds in Focus - 12/2022
A Birding Group Wings - 12/2022
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Super Excited that this photo won these Fine Art America Conests:
1st place of 99 entries in Every Swan's a Comedian in January 2023!!!
1st place of 65 entries in Different Wildlife Species Interacting in January 2023!!!
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September 10th, 2022
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Comments (78)
Sharon Williams Eng
What a fun capture.
Angie Mossburg replied:
Thank you Sharon! Sometimes my sense of humor collides with my imagination in writing the descriptions. They were hilarious to watch!
Morris Finkelstein
Fabulous wildlife photograph, Angie! Congratulations on your First Place in the Different Wildlife Species Interacting contest! F/L
Angie Mossburg replied:
Thanks so much Morris. Congrats to you as well for Get Off My Back - that's a great shot!
Julie Barrick
Congratulations Angie on your first place win in the Go Take a Hike Photography Group contest!! Such a awesome shot!!
Jennifer Jenson
Congratulations on your 1st Place Win in the Go Take a Hike Photography Group’s Different Animals Interacting contest! Such a great shot!
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Angie – your stunning scene finished FIRST PLACE in the Go Take a Hike Photography Group’s Different Animals Interacting photo contest! It will be placed on the group homepage as a special feature for the week, as well in the Contest Winners thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Sarah Irland
Congratulations, Angie, on your 1st Place Win in the Every Swan's a Comedian Contest. What a wonderful photograph! L/F
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