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Pelican
pulsarnc
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Not to hijacks Allen's duck thread but I saw something unusual Sunday . I was fishing in an abandoned gravel pit/ pond behind my house . It covers about 75 to 80acres . Home to a large flock of resident and migratory Canada geese. Saw a large white bird with black wingtips. Turned out to be what Google says is a white Pelican. Sorry no good pics . He is about 2500 miles too far east . Going to try to get wife to let me borrow her camera Saturday so I can get pics . 📸
cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war.....
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Almost sounds like a Wood Stork. Don
Pond crane
Like Lake Tahoe having seagulls. Now I think of it I wonder if they have pelicans? Global Warming is crazy.
Just looked up on youtube if pelicans were in Lake Tahoe and sure enough one popped up. This one is white with black wing tips. They claimed it got lost or got pushed in by Jet Stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkURYGEIL1o
There's another video that American White Pelicans are declining from Great Salt Lake. So maybe the Tahoe pelican is one of these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7KkdMkegQ
I always thought they were sea birds and not so much "lake" birds. I mean GSL is a ways off from the ocean. I get seagulls going pretty much anywhere like their cousin the "flying rats" (pigeons) but not pelicans. So I thought.
There needs to be a bounty on them in western Wyoming and Eastern Idaho, they have found several small streams feeding rivers and small reservoirs where cutthroat and rainbow trout spawn and have decimated the fish stocks.
no remorse when I see a white bag of feather in various places as some fishing folks take matters into their own hand.
one small island on Blackfoot reservoir is a nesting ground for these vermin and Idaho Fish&Game won’t let people got out and stomp the nest and bust the eggs, but they have released raccoons and badgers there several times in attempt to “ naturally” disrupt the nests, but so far each species have swam off the island after a short time, guess they don’t like pelicans for neighbors either.
rant over.
Mule
I wonder how much them bureaucrats spent on "natural" fixes when a handful of .22LR would've cost so little.
Also it would be funny to shoot one during duck season "hey warden I got this awful funny looking duck".
River turkey. I hear they taste like chicken.
The only time in my sheltered northern life that I have ever seen a pelican was during a summer trip through Minnesota!! I thought I had taken a detour into the Twilight Zone!
With Global Warming when will we get to see flamingos in Salton Sea?
Every time I see this post title, I think it's about a forum member by that name. Pelican, the forum member, has not posted in many years.