Pelicans

I’ve been ruminating on pelicans, for literary reasons, and have been reminded how much I like them.

And of course the poem comes to mind:

A wonderful bird is a pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

— Dixon Lanier Merritt (often misattributed to Ogden Nash)

image:  Christie B. Cochrell, Pelicans, Half Moon Bay