Pelican Rescue: Fish carcasses, hooks, and irresponsible pier fishing injures too many sea birds! 

Thanks for helping with this pelican. Wish people were more aware of theit impact on wildlife.

Thank you for being a kind human being 🦋

Hi Frank from Pennsylvania student Jeff. I love your videos. . Awsome as always. I just got home from a bat cave gating mission. It was in Fayette County Pennsylvania. Near Lural caverns near Uniontown. On chestnut ridge. It was a very rugged experience. I guess now I'm chief welder for our mission. And will be sent elsewhere soon. Or teacher was from cave gators . . It rained every day. 1 day so hard we had to stop. I helped cut an old gate. From the cave. I went underground about 50 yards a used a cutting torch. . Then when the 4 " steel angle iron was brought. I welded all day. And almost all day Wednesday. .it was very hard. And I've never welded before. Being held by my feet and welding upside down. . We all goter done.. as a team. I work for the best wildlife agency in the world. I love my job..the Pennsylvania game commission ♥️. . God bless Frank. From your Pennsylvania student Jeff. 😊

I like to see those beautiful birds get help. In the late '70s, there was a pier at a trailer park on the Anclote River in Tarpon Springs where a pelican lived full time. This was because his gular pouch was split from front to back right down the middle and he could no longer hunt. Many of the folks who lived in the park fished and they always kept a few "greenbacks"- the bait fish they got with cast nets- and frogs for the debilitated (badump tsch) pelican. At that time, there weren't many pelican rescues in the area, and the ones that did exist often lacked the resources to do long surgeries that required anesthetic, so the residents adopted him. That pelican was actually very personable...he'd sidle up next to you while you were fishing and rest his head against your leg. Not to anthropomorphize, but it seemed like he was grateful for the help, and he was certainly comfortable with people. He lived there around 20 years and the elderly retirees in the park loved their "mascot". And as to hooks, since it was impossible to keep birds from nabbing hooked fish, or some protected fish from swallowing a hook, I used cheap ones so they would dissolve or at least weaken in the saltwater quickly. Stainless and plated hooks can stick around for a lonnnnnng time, and some of the platings are toxic to animals.

🫶🏻 what a kind act you did. And the lady working for the nonprofit. Although in the end the bird didn’t make it perhaps it avoided a miserable delayed end on that beach where it was clearly suffering. Thanks for all of your kind acts ❤

Great job, Frank!

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