Ducks, Geese and......Pelicans?

Seriously, Pelicans?  I was sitting by my bedroom window the other night working away on my laptop (ok, so I was chatting on Facebook) and my little Irish Thug (son) leans across me to peer out the window and says "What the heck?  Are those swans?"  OK, now I am stoked!  Swans?  In our little lake?  What an honor, Perfect Princess will love that (Strains of music from Tchaikovsky start playing in my head).  Then he says, "No, wait, what are those birds with the really long beaks?"  Hmmmm, long beak, size of a swan....Pelicans?  OK, so much for ballet, now I am thinking Finding Nemo.  I ran out on the deck to see 6 pelicans floating across our little lake.  I really had no idea that pelicans could actually look graceful and, dare I say, elegant.  I can see why Little Irish Thug mistook them for swans.

Normally we have families of geese and ducks in our little lake.  This is such a fun time of year to see all of the babies.  Perfect Princess loves standing on the deck throwing bread in the water saying "Grandma, make them come eat, I gave them bread"  Maybe I should curb that enthusiasm a bit, I believe Marie Antoinette said something similar and look what happened to her.   'No Perfect Princess, they do not have to eat the bread, allow them to be free citizens on the lake and we shall share our bounty with them.  They may partake of the bread of their own choosing.  We must not gloat about our abundance for fear that they may turn my humble home into a remake of Hitchcock's "The Birds" ' No seriously, we do love the water fowl on the lake and we did discover that they do not like Cherrios to eat.  We'll stick to bread, with or without Marie.