| ▲ | sagarpatil 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why are you obsessed with Pelicans? What’s your story? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | simonw 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm from the UK originally. On one of my first trips to California I was up on the cliffs in Marin County and a squadron flew by and I was amazed by them - and the Californians I was with were like "yeah, you see them all the time". Now I live in California and I still can't believe I get to see them here. They're absurd - they don't look like they should be able to fly at all. They're also incredibly pretty, especially in their breeding plumage. I live in Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco, which turns out to be home to the second largest mega-roost of the California Brown Pelican (my favourite kind of pelican) in the world. We've even rescued two of them (injured birds, we got them in a carrier and took them to the animal rescue place). They make for a fun theme for all sorts of different AI experiments. They're also very photogenic - I had a bunch of photos I've taken on my PyCon poster recently (you have to zoom in quite a bit to see them though): https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/poster-full-siz... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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