Scratching Pelican on Piling

by Carla Parris

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Scratching Pelican on Piling

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Carla Parris

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The marina at Cedar Key, Florida is a hub of bird activity and boat activity. Pelicans are among the birds that like to congregate in the area, from which fishing boats come and go.

Here, a pelican is comically perched on a piling, doing a balancing act on one leg, and one webbed foot, as the other is raised apparently to scratch an itch. What gymnastics even a bird may have to go to reach some out of the way place that has a most inconvenient itch!

Cedar Key is located on the Gulf coast of Florida where the Nature Coast bends (at Big Bend) to the Florida Panhandle and its Forgotten Coast and Emerald Coast.

This quaint, sleepy, laid-back little fishing village is on one of the many islands, and really islets, because many of them are very small, which make up this set of keys (which are not to be confused with the more well-known Florida Keys stretching from Key Largo, south of Miami, to Key West, just 90 miles away from Cuba.) Some have said that Cedar Key today feels like Key West of years past.

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October 27th, 2022

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