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["Lee Adams" <ladams42@xxxxxxx>]

My father and I were on a pizza run for supper late this afternoon 
when we stopped to check the assembled birds on, and around, an old 
pier on the Tappahannock side of the Rt. 360 bridge that crosses the 
Rappahannock River. I pointed out several pairs of Osprey and some 
Laughing Gulls among the many Double-crested Cormorants . I was 
looking at a Red-breasted Merganser in the river when my father said, 
There's a pelican. A Brown Pelican was preening its feathers with its 
back turned to us and had blended in very well with the weathered 
gray-brown of the old wood. When last we saw it, it was flying north 
up the river towards Naylor's Beach.
Neither he nor I has ever seen a pelican that far up the Rappahannock.

Lee Loudenslager Adams
Fredericksburg, VA
ladams42@xxxxxxx 

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