I Floated Lonely As a White Pelican

 On the retention pond at the back of my house.   (I wish that I had a real camera not just an I-phone one)




It floated all alone for about twenty minutes before taking off.

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'Tis  a rare sight inland.   There is a migratory White Pelican rookery on an tiny Island in Robert's Bay  (Sarasota).

I twice have taken a Mote Marine boat tour to explore what "natural life" our Bays offer. On one occasion the little Island was bursting with White Pelicans.


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I am more familiar with Brown Pelicans which I often see on my morning walks with Zion at Bayfront Park.

They fly and fish in groups of two or three, often followed by smaller water birds which I cannot identify.

When the Pelicans dive for their food (spectacular!) the smaller birds dive in their wake.  My theory is that when the Pelicans snag a fish they create wee bits of fish flesh which the smaller birds retrieve;  a symbiotic feeding.



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