and I’ll say it again (at least once) . .
”Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!
His bill holds more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week.
But I’m darned if I know how the helican.”
PS: Mr. and Mrs. Painted Bunting are still hanging out in my palmetto bushes this evening!
BW
The buzzing of airboats reverberates across the marsh like giant bumble bees, humming their way from nest to nest in search of this ancient delicacy.
Makes me think of the Wizard of Oz. Only Dorothy didn’t have a storm warning, she wasn’t told to get out, and no agency offered her emergency grant money to make her journey to Oz and to buy apples along the way. But wait. Dorothy was only dreaming, after all.
It doesn’t really matter, might get confusing, but no matter which word you use, you’ve got to get that stuff taken care of properly! Sewerage is the system of pipes, etc that treat and get rid of “sewage”. Sewage is the stuff that flows through the pipes and equipment. Now, are we all clear on…
or “The Miracle Workers from Midland, Michigan have arrived!” You haven’t heard from me in a while, because I was unable to escape the ills of winter. I”m still not 100% but I’m so super-dee-duper excited about this group of wonderful folks from up north that I dragged myself out of my sick bed to…
My “TO DO ” list is about a half mile shorter than it was a month ago, but as I sat at my desk this morning looking for comments from you and deleting junk mail, and generally avoiding what needed to be done, a red truck drove past my bedroom window headed back toward the…
Remember this? the old toilet and old floor . . . And this spot where the toilet went? Ta Da! Like magic, isn’t it? LilSis carried the old nasty one out. Then Handy Friend repaired the old floor. I installed the flooring and the new toilet. I cut, painted and installed the baseboards. Termite painted…
Saw a blue heron trying to do a pelican move today.
Ended up deeper than its feet.
3 ospreys today. And beezillions of geese.
Cool! I got a closeup of green heron . . . coming soon . . .
When we were in Grand Isle a few weeks ago, we saw something we’d never seen before. Dozens of Pelicans lined up on a power line going through the Marsh. It was a very strange sight. BW, have you ever seen them on power lines?
I do enjoy watching Pelicans feed. I get tickled when they dive. They aren’t the most graceful birds.
Steffi – I have NOT seen them do that. Makes you wonder if the oil spill still has some of them a little “spooked” about where they can land and roost????
I used to think that pelicans weren’t graceful birds but the more I watch them, the more I realized how graceful they really are. They are kind of like ballet dancers with a big nose or something true but love watching them sail over the water.
Lucky you on the painted buntings still hanging around!
Magnificent is the word I use for them!
I love your jingle/poem. How in the world do pelicans balance on power lines with webbed feet? They are webbed, right?
Our birds all seem to have left for the year. I haven’t seen my little doves that came out daily for the cracked pecans I would put on the edge of our side street. And, even the sparrows and blackbirds are scarce. Very unusual. We do have chimney swallows across the street since my chimney is covered with a thick screen. The house next door had 3 humongous chimneys until last month that they nested in. They reroofed and removed those gorgeous chimneys. I had the fun of explaining how Santa was going to bring gifts to anyone over there to the youngest two grandkids. LOL. I am so thankful they don’t know those vent pipes sticking up are part of the whole sewer system.
Wonder where your birds went? I have droves of red-winged black birds at my feeders right now, and hummers still fight over the sugar water every day.
The Hummers must all be headed your way. I haven’t seen any Hummers since Wednesday. Actually, I saw only one on that day. All the Red throats had already left.
Took two boys fishing for the local rodeo today. Fishing again tomorrow so they can hopefully get some fish on the board. When I weighed my “sea cat” in, I knocked the guy out of first place!!! His weighed 3.5 and mine weighed 5.5!!!
We are in full swing with bird migration here in southwest NM. All the summer residents have left and all the winter ones are moving in. I saw my first flock of juncos a few days ago and the flocks of sparrows are here.
Oh think of the slime? Throw the net away? Weather too weird here for good bite 40 deg temp swings.
Geaux Tigers
One of the little towns here has what they call a Pelican Path – statues of pelicans dressed in everything from ship captain uniforms to touristy floral shirts. Just funny, and more appealing than you might think.
I love the pelican poem – it’s one of the first ones my dad taught me, although he misattributed it to Ogden Nash and it took me decades to find out some dude named Dixon Lanier Merritt wrote it. But when I see the first white pelicans wheeling in from the north, it always comes to mind.
There’s one flock of the white that hang out at the edge of Galveston bay where the docks have falled apart – about 50 of them, and one pelican per piling! I just can’t imagine them on wires – neat trick, but it feels painful when I think about it…
So great to see them looking healthy.