Um, Pelicans in Maine?

[Maine-ah]

When Glenn Wiley got to work at Maine Coast Seafood in Spruce Head early Friday morning he spotted a group of pelicans outside his window.

Bill Goodwill, president emeritus of the Midcoast Audubon Society, said pelicans are rarely seen even as far north as Cape Cod and that only happens when there are severe southern storms such as the weather system that visited the Midcoast Thursday morning.

At midday Friday, Henry Donovan of Long Island reported that lobstermen had seen two pelicans among some gulls on the northeast side of Chebeague Island.

http://www.knox.villagesoup.com/news/story/pelicans-sighted-in-spruce-head/293023

[TwilightGardener]

1. Surprised that that's rare, actually. I've seen pelicans in Kansas, Colorado and

and Nebraska.

[Maine-ah]

3. The first time I ever saw one was in florida

they scared the crap outa me lol....they're so prehistoric looking, and I had no idea they were that big!

[TwilightGardener]

8. Yep--I used to live in Florida, and I loved the way they hung around

the docks, waiting for fishing boats, or the way they skimmed the water looking for fish. It's hard to realize how big they are until you see them up close.

[imdjh]

18. The origin of "give a flying crap" is undoubtedly with Florida pelicans.

Like inmates on Lock Up, one knows it's only a matter of time until one is lollygagging around in the Gulf only to have a literal bucket of shit dropped on his head.

[arcadian]

6. They are fairly common in that region.

I used to see them Yellowstone alot.

[XemaSab]

12. Maps

[TwilightGardener]

14. Interesting, thank you!

[Shagbark Hickory]

21. No way. You Lie!

Seriously?
I thought those birds relied on fish and shit.

[intheflow]

25. There are fish in those states.

Just not salt water fish.

[Paladin]

23. Haven't Seen Any Pelicans In The Denver Area, Yet.

But I have seen lots of gulls---and here we are, a thousand miles from the nearest ocean......

[intheflow]

26. I've seen a couple pelicans here in Denver.

Well, in Cherry Hills, on a lake along the Highline Canal trail. I go there all the time but have only seen the pelicans once. However, there's a regular flock up in the Fort Collins area.

[TwilightGardener]

27. I saw them up near Steamboat Springs, at Stagecoach reservoir.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Neighbor, how do you get to Chebeague Island from here?

Why you, why you just, um, why, well you know you can't get there from here...(without cruising on the Bluebird II, that is)

- Bert

[Maine-ah]

5. cahn't get the'ah frohm he'ah

;-)

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. No, suh!

[eShirl]

31. Being from East Vassalboro, we listened to Bert and I til the records about wore out.

"Don'tcha move a goddamn inch!"

It was funnier to us kids because Mom would bite her lip, so as not to let her face register parental approval for cussin'.

P.S. Tim Sample is a poseur :p
But I do appreciate him carrying on the torch for Marshall Dodge, may he rest in peace.

[arcadian]

4. American White Pelicans too.

I saw a Brown Pelican way inland on the York River last weekend, that is a rare treat.

[dionysus]

7. you close to sanford? i grew up there.

[Maine-ah]

9. Lobstah capital....Rockland - midcoast

[dionysus]

13. cool

:hi: from one mainah to anothah

i never had much of an accent but i love how we take the r's that belong on some words and add them to words that don't need them

[Maine-ah]

15. my favorite.... "idear" instead of idea. lol :)

[dionysus]

30. and sometimes you put commers inbetween words :)

[Canuckistanian]

10. And now, a poem

"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."

Dixon Lanier Merritt
(1879-1972)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. heh

:) :thumbsup:

[ensho]

11. here in the Keys we used to call them the Conch Air Force because

they flew in formation, skimming the surface of the water. lots of them. sadly, hardly any anymore.

[XemaSab]

16. Brown Pelicans were delisted a few weeks ago

:)

[ensho]

20. oh, good!

nt

[FSogol]

22. It is not a sign of the end times. Many birds get pushed off course during storms

and end up far from their natural habitat. They usually rest up for a week or so and then head back home. Here at a local park in Northern VA, a few years ago, we sighted some whistling ducks native to Vietnam. The birdwatchers in the area got real excited. They hung around for 2 weeks. ;-)

[Odin2005]

24. Cool picture.

Pretty birds. They are bigger birds than you expect they are.

[MuseRider]

28. We get them in Kansas

as well as seagulls. I thought I was having a psychic break the first time I saw a large flock of white pelicans flying over my house. They come every year, I don't know where they go, I have never had one on my big pond (and I get all kinds of interesting stuff on the pond from time to time) but you can see them fly over.

[cayanne]

29. In idaho too

We have them way up here in the Idaho panhandle.

[Sedona]

32. Pelicans at Yellowstone

After growing up among the Brown Pelicans of South Florida, imagine my surprise at seeing these guys way out West!

http://ecobirder.blogspot.com/2008/06/yellowstone-pelicanswans-and-sandhill.html