Posted on 04/05/2008 12:19:31 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak, Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
"The Pelican" (1910) by Dixon Lanire Merrith
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Wow, you do take the most beautiful pictures. Thanks! Pandy
It's been a long while since I read this nifty poem.
Thanks for posting these great photos.
Pelicans always look like they are staring at you don’t they? Tell the dock master he needs to cap those posts. ;+)
Thanks, SS! Pelicans are so beautiful. We didn’t have any here for years and years and now it’s nothing to see them everywhere.
Great poem too!
Have a great day! How’s your weather? Pouring here right this minute. Everything’s blooming—wish I had half your skill with camera and computer so I could show everyone! LOL
Your photos are so perfect that I thought it might be a painting.
Beautiful.
So much fun to watch.
Leni
(Florida)
Leni
WOW! Your pictures just brought back some fond memories.
Wonderful way to start the day, looking at God’s inventions.
Smile and have a good day.
The pelican is a noble bird
It flies from sea to sea
It eats its fill in Arkansas
And poops on Tennessee.
Last spring I visited the northwest and was very suprised to see lots and lots of white pelicans inland as far east as Wyoming. The Snake river in Idaho was well populated with resident white pelicans.
WOW
On a good day there’s two that hang out on the Oceanside pier. We call them Mexican turkeys.
They are fascinating birds.
Years ago myself and family was docked in a marina in the Keys.
My daughter, about 10 at the time, was fishing off the dock and catching little sargent-major fish.
The pet marina pelican, Petunia, waddled over and she would hand feed him/her.
If there was a lull in the action Petunia would walk over to the edge of the dock and peer over the side, looking at the fishing line.
I’ve got some pics of it somewhere.
Terrific pics BTW.
These are so good.
Living here on the east coast of Florida I see more of the “brown” ones and they are smaller.
I should frame the last one with a title: Yep, Checked everything. I could put it on the door where I would see it before leaving the house.
Maybe I wouldn’t forget so much!
I heard from Hummingbird Daughter last night. She was amazed and said it surpassed anything in her “bird books”.
Thanks again!
Wyoming?! Who’d a thunk it?
You learn something new every day. I had no idea that pelicans were anywhere other than near the coast.
That's very cool that they're also in the interior. I've always been partial to pelicans as they seem to be such relaxed, unhurried birds.
I’m waiting for the kingfisher to come back. That’s when I know summer is really here! LOL
Seagulls saved the Mormons in Utah in 1848.
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