[TN-Bird] pelican at Douglas?

Folks,

Yesterday someone I know who is not a birder, but is an observant
person, asked me "could I have seen a pelican at Douglas dam?"  I had
her describe the bird, and it sure sounds like a Brown Pelican.  I
won't have an opportunity to go look, but if you're in the area,
please keep your eyes open and let us all know.  It seems pretty hard
to mis-identify anything else as a pelican...

She described the bird as "HUGE, with big, fat belly and a really
long bill.  It sat like this:" and she assumed a position with her
back/neck bent back and mouth pointed towards her chest, so that her
imaginary bill would run parallel to her imaginary long neck.  After
I got over the humor of this, I told her that pelicans often rest in
that same position.

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Naturalist in
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden.  To the illuminated mind 
the whole world sparkles with light."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson


                
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