Pooped Pod Of Pelicans

Each one of these Pelicans weighs thirty plus pounds and has a wing span of more than five feet.

Late yesterday afternoon I walked out on our back porch and spotted these pelicans, about twenty or so, huddled up on the south-east edge of Lake Merritt in about twenty-eight degree   temperature. This is about the third or fourth pod of pelicans that have stopped over for a little rest and fishing. It is amazing to watch how they fish in an organized effort, spreading evenly from each other as they traverse almost our entire little lake with their heads underwater alternating looking up for directional adjustments.

This pod of Pelicans moved on this morning determining that a land that develops twenty- three degree temperatures is not far enough south yet. It was nice sharing a few of our fish with them.