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Brown Pelicans at RDU airport



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Date sent:      	Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:50:21 -0500 (EST)
From:           	Carol Ann McCormick <camcc@email.unc.edu>
Subject:        	brown pelicans

5 brown pelicans seen flying over the lakes by the lake (retention
ponds) on the entrance to RDU airport from I540 at 9:30am this morning (11
December, 2000).

I don't think I'm crazy... but has anyone else seen brown pelicans there? 
I'm sure they were pelicans, not extra-large geese or Great Blue Herons with 
no legs out the back.  I just about ran off the road gawking.  Maybe they 
were looking for Terminal C to get a Midway flight to Disney World...  Would 
make a good sighting for Christmas count...  

In a more likely scenario, we have one male and one female Purple Finch
coming daily to our feeder (southwest Orange County).  

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