Brown Pelicans are fascinating to watch in flight, so graceful yet so prehistoric looking.

I thought this one was going to land and try to catch a fish. He dropped his feet.

But then he tucked them in as he glided over a school of jumping fish.

Fooled me again.

Brown Pelicans eat by either diving into the water and scooping food into their beak/pouch or sometimes by bobbing on the water and snatching up a fish, not by picking it up with their feet–I’m not sure what he was up to here.

Then it was landing gear up and away he went down the river, no lunch.