White pelicans at the dog park

I do believe wildlife in WI has been coming back strongly over the last several years. A few years ago I saw a bird on the Fox river and thought it was a pelican but it stayed all summer too far out to see well. The next year there was another white bird and a baby eventually. Now we have thousands of white pelicans. They still aren't near as used to people as Canadian geese so its hard to get close pictures but I stood in a bush on a peninsula in the middle of the dog park pond to get these.

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Wow...that is pretty awesome! When you see Pelicans sitting in the water it is amazing to think they can actually fly.