Two times in the last week I've had someone say "You must really be bored." The first time it was because I was photographing a dead pelican at Its Beach. The second time it was because I said I had been reading up on wild grasses at Light house Field. Both time my response was "No, I'm just interested in stuff
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I didn't see any dogs offering to roll in it, so maybe pelican smell isn't all that attractive to them.
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True enough! it took me some getting used to while I was there (I lived in SF for 5 months), but I didn't mind too much. I did recently have a guy (who would have fit in fine in SF) talk to me when I was taking pictures of a slime mold. When someone talks to you in Boston you think: "Crazy, Christian, or both?"
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Disturbing picture. I can't tell if there's plastic there, although I'd imagine a starving pelican will eat almost anything, if hungry enough.
The story I've heard with the young pelicans is that the water surface is warmer than normal because of the unusually high temperatures we've been having and the small fish that the pelicans eat are going deeper to find cool water. The young pelicans can't dive as deep as the adults and starve unless the Marine Mammal Center or some other interested outfit can find them and supplement their diet.
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