Tales from the Lagoon ~ Episode - HAPPY One YEAR ANNIVERSARY PIP!
Tales from the Lagoon ~ Episode - HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PIP!
Hi Everyone, it’s me Pip the Pelican! If you are just tuning in, it has been quite a year! I survived because a lot of people cared about me. My success story is one filled with love and compassion.
Can you believe it, Shelley has 2000 photos of me!
I am a brown pelican who got into trouble a year ago today when I tried to eat a filleted sheepshead, they are very boney fish and it got stuck like a porcupine in my pouch.
It was very scary having the fish stuck, it took a few days for help to arrive so I sat on the beach not knowing what to do.
Thankfully, 6 Hoomans came to my rescue. They held me with care. While holding open my pouch for what seemed like forever, they reached in with lots of fingers and hands, unhooked the fish from my spongy pouch, turned it and pulled it out! I like finger mullet but all those Hooman fingers were a bit much!
I was really weak after the fish was out. I couldn’t fly or eat on my own. The bird hospital was closed so they told Shelley to feed me! Best thing ever!!! It took me 10 days to be able to fly and then I could only fly short distances.
A few months after the pokey fish I got pretty sick. Shelley, found a rehab place for me about 70 miles north of my home in New Smyrna Beach. That was when I had my first car ride. While there, I spent 5 days bellied up to the all you can eat sushi bar.
When they let me go, I could have stayed, and had free food but I was homesick so I flew home. Everyone was so surprised I knew how to get back on my own. You see, I’m pretty smart, and knew I just had to follow my heart to reach my home.
I had an injured leg when I arrived but Shelley took care of me while I rested on my pole for a couple weeks.
Since then, I have been feeling pretty good. I still visit Shelley a few times a week. I don’t like string her with those young pelicans, Rusty and Eddy.
My neck is still crooked from the pokey fish, so I fly different than the other pelicans. I hold my head up rather than back and streamlined. It makes me easy to spot in a crowd.
I’m grateful for all your love and support throughout the year. Shelley has told me all your kind words, and I want you to know, you truly gave me wind beneath my wings to keep going.
THANK YOU!
Love PiP
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May 2022, I feel sick again
I learned what a selfie is
Getting squeaky clean never looked so good!
hanging with my bestie
This is me now. Check out those baby blues! Hubba hubba :)
This is me now too! I’m still changing colors as I mature.
