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Bo Zarts

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9. "A strange bird, the pelican ..

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 22, 2024, 04:18 PM

Mar 2024

It's mouth can hold more than it's belly can!"

This is one of my earliest memories of my childhood (late 1940s) on Dog River near Mobile Bay. It was one of the many little diddies my father would recite to us kids, as the pelicans flew past our playpens out on our dock.

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Pelican Fantasies (a short story in three paragraphs and a photo) [View all] Bo Zarts Mar 2024 OP

I'm expecting the intercept videos any minute now.... erronis Mar 2024 #1

Watch for the story with video on the 11 o'clock news. Bo Zarts Mar 2024 #4

Love it! Diamond_Dog Mar 2024 #2

Sounds like you're a pilot. calimary Mar 2024 #3

Were .. past tense now. Bo Zarts Mar 2024 #5

Husband was, too. Civil aviation. calimary Mar 2024 #6

i and my healthcare worker use murs radio as comms in case of emergency for me. i wanna use this when i check out AllaN01Bear Mar 2024 #7

how much can a pelican feed its bellycan. AllaN01Bear Mar 2024 #8

"A strange bird, the pelican .. Bo Zarts Mar 2024 #9