While biking and birding today along the road by Crockett Lake on Whidbey Island, I watched an America White Pelican come in for a landing in the shallows. It caused quite a kerfuffle among a large gathering of gulls, who rose up and whirled around briefly. They must have figured out that this gigantic intruder wasn't a predator; the pelican stood among them resting for the last few minutes that I watched.

Brenda Burnett
Seattle
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