Highway 730 in
Oregon along the Columbia River. My first pelican sighting! They
sit motionless, bobbing with the waves. They look like oblong, white
buoys with a pointy end. That pointy end is aimed ominously at the
water. Dark, beady eyes on either side of the attached end miss
nothing. The business end appears razor sharp.
The Trucker tells me
pelicans are excellent divers; I had always pictured them just
scooping up beaks full of surface water, filtering out the water and
retaining the fishy stuff.
Pelicans certainly
do not need all the accessories for a day of fishing that the human
variety of fisherman requires. They are quite efficient. And self
sufficient. Just as they were created to be.
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