I knew without a photo you wouldn't believe this one about birds

[Omaha Steve]

We see them every year. The marsh is just down the hill from us in plain site. But even with our telephoto lense shooting between the trees makes a good shot hard to impossible to get.

Two days ago we had another first at our feeders. A pair of mallards were eating corn out of the squirrels ground feeder.

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[merrily]

1. Great pic. Thanks, Steve!

[Bjornsdotter]

2. I believe you

We see them all of the time on Lake Koshkonong. It is between Janesville and Madison, WI.

The first time we saw them we couldn't believe they were pelicans.

[snooper2]

3. what do you call a pessimistic pelican?

A pelican't

[hopemountain]

15. how do you catch a unique rabbit?

you nique up on it!

my 5 year old nephew shared this one with me.

[petronius]

4. Looks like spectators at a swim meet, and a couple of them have just noticed

that the racer at the far left is going the wrong way...

[kracer20]

5. You made me think of this...

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/25ad8da437/shake-shake-oops?_cc=__d___&_ccid=9fe978a5768bd6f6

[awoke_in_2003]

9. He's a rebel. nt

[Omaha Steve]

13. It just happens that the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials are in Omaha June 26 through July 3

MECA

MECA is planning for a family-friendly area to the north of the CenturyLink Center in an effort to bring more activities to 10th and Mike Fahey Streets.

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/ferris-wheel-food-trucks-party-bungalows-coming-to-th-street/article_9c4a2559-3807-5c9e-bd4d-a02092a0fd70.html

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 10:22 AM, WED MAR 30, 2016.
By Roseann Moring / World-Herald staff writer

Families with children will have more to do downtown during this year’s College World Series and U.S. Olympic Swim Trials.

The Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority is planning a family area with a 100-foot-tall Ferris wheel north of the CenturyLink Center.

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“The whole community is waiting for this festive atmosphere,” said board member Jay Noddle.

The CWS will run June 18 through the 28th or 29th, and the Swim Trials are June 26 through July 3.

FULL story at link.

[MisterP]

6. yeah, the "whities" always supermigrate and nest in the Midwest

they're huge and they act like dogs

[SoapBox]

7. Maybe...

Bernie Bros?

[Duval]

8. Thanks, OS!

I've never seen so many together! A Pelican Party?

[Brother Buzz]

10. A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican

A wonderful bird is the pelican.
His bill can hold more than his belican.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.

Ogden Nash Dixon Lanier Merritt

[csziggy]

11. White pelicans spend their winters in the South

And there are actually more areas for them to overwinter than there used to be.

When I grew up in Central Florida many of the wetlands had been or were in the process of being destroyed by phosphate mining. Starting in the 1970s a lot of areas were "reclaimed" - while they did return the swamps and marshy wetlands, they have created many lakes and ponds where those used to be.

A block behind my parents' house the city dug out a marshy area that had been basically wasted land and made lakes to handle storm drain flows. These have become wonderful wildlife areas and some winters the lakes are covered nearly bank to bank with white and brown pelicans.

The first few years it happened it was exciting for the townspeople - they had not seen that many pelicans for years. What they didn't realize is that the birds had been using phosphate pits to congregate but those pits were in the process of being "reclaimed" displacing the pelicans. Fortunately for the birds, the town's new park and drainage area was ready for them!

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. Beautiful.

[Tanuki]

14. They look like they wanted to have their group picture taken!

[a kennedy]

16. Our home overlooking the Mississippi River has been blessed with tons O' Pelicans.....

calmly floating by in groups of 3, 5, 10......my most favorite time of year, outside of Autumn when they float by going the other way. I love pelicans.....

[B Calm]

17. One of the lakes I use to fish in northern Minnesota had Pelicans on it. Something

I never saw in Indiana. I was amazed how big of bird they are.

[Marrah_G]

18. haha- That looks like a Pelican class of 2016 photo!

What a great picture!

[madokie]

19. If there is anyone here

who knows how to make a person smile, from the inside out, it is you OS


What a wonderful person you are

[panader0]

20. ^^What madokie said^^