My hobby's first birthday

I did not plan this but I suddenly realised the fist bird I photographed as part of my hobby was an Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus). I say first bird in the sense that it was on our family holiday driving to Queensland, the holiday where I rekindled my interest in birds and nature, and I used my iPhone to take the photograph on the left. It was the first bird I entered into my Bird Journal application. I can still recall a sense of excitement when the bird was near. It was on the Hastings River in northern NSW, near mangroves. I was always fascinated by mangrove swamps and I could not get enough of them. The whole scene evoked a lot of childhood memories for family holidays when I was a boy. Well that photograph, as I said, my first photograph for this hobby was on 17 April 2018. I took the photograph on the right on 13 April 2019, almost a year later while I was at Nielsen Park, and I was not expecting to see a pelican. I am glad I have pelicans bookending my first year. They are a wonderful bird, very iconic, an unmistakable form that most people will recognise. Again, I did not plan this, I just found it a happy coincidence I wanted to share. I am looking forward to many more years with this hobby.