Tales from the Lagoon~ Episode Pip Gets Squeaky Clean. Sadly, NO sunrise today, rain and overcast
Tales from the Lagoon~ Episode Pip Gets Squeaky Clean
If you re just tuning in, I’m Pip the pelican. I tried to eat a filleted sheepshead fish, last year around this time. The boney fish was stuck in my gullet and I was scared because I couldn’t get it out A group of people with a lot of fingers reached in and got the pokey fish out. YAY!
The bird hospital was closed at the time but said to feed me, I liked this a lot! It took me 10 days to be able to fly again. It took me several months to feel better. The short version is I have quite a bumpy year.
I haven’t been feeling my best for the past 2 weeks. I feel like I am aging or at the least feeling like an elder bird before my time.
A couple weeks ago, I had a very long worm exiting my tushy, I didn’t know what it was but Shelley looked like she turned green when she saw it. I’m thinking that’s not a good thing.
The fact that I was taking a bath, and a really long one, means I’m feeling a bit better. I was bathing in shallow water, and when I went to flap my wings to get the water off, my feet touched the ground! It surprised me and I almost fell right on Shelley. That’s why I’m so close in the photos.
In the past year when I was really struggling, I would sit on the beach because I knew that would alert Shelley I was in trouble and needed help. For now, I’m not sitting on the beach and don’t want Shelley to pick me up and take me to the hospital. When she thinks about it, I swim away from her.
We still have long talks. I told her I would sit on the beach or give her a sign if I needed help. She told me, “I trust your journey. I am here for you if you need anything.”
Sadly, in the past 2 weeks, I have seen 4 more pelican friends with filleted sheepshead stuck in their gullet. Shelley was able to get one out but not the other 3. For any fisher friends reading this, please spread the word about the filleted sheepshead being deadly to us pelicans. Thank You!
Stay tuned for more tales!
