Dead pelican @ Calc Pt.
 

Found this dead pelican at Calcasieu Point Landing next to the ice machine. Wonder what happened to it?

Oilspill. Blame bp

Choked on a redfish carcus (sp)

Damn BP.....Them SOB...... I saw a Penguin last week....Dead

Looks like it quit breathin'.

Yep. looks like it died right there.

Did it have a ban???

He prolly got the "bandhammer" too

Dats good eatin!

cook dat

PELICAN PIETY
The perfect recipe for tough cuts of meat, ie. anything off a Pelican, not suitable for other dishes. I wouldn't recommend tackling this recipe unless you are feeling particularly fit as Pelicans are notoriously difficult to catch. Your best chance is to wait till the end of a feast and wave a teatowel just outside the kitchen door.
Cut meat from the bone. Pick over carcass for all edible bits of meat- there won't be much. Mince or chop what you do find thoroughly. Put a tablespoon of lard (renderings from a Baron or Baroness are best) to melt in a medium saucepan. Chop an onion finely and fry in the lard til golden. Stir in a tablespoon of flour and at least 500g of the meat. Cook until the Pelican mince takes a little colour then add 600ml of chicken or beef stock and a few drops of Worcestershire sauce. You might like to add some sweet white wine if the Pelican of your choice was especially bitter or not from Politarchopolis. Chop some parsley and stir in a tablespoon worth. When the gravy is quite thick pour into a gratin dish and cover with thick layer of pastry. Preheat the oven to 180C. Paint the pastry with a little butter and put the pie into the oven for 20 minutes. Best served with boiled root vegetables.

Same way I'm gonna cook the pink dolphin!!

Put in a gumbo, makes it taste just like seafood gumbo

Hey now you leave panky out of this! you jew! :smokin:

Nice pic fool

See w.

Bp oil all the way up big lake.

I told you it was in Toledo bend in July

What he said!

It was all the way up in rice fields near Monroe in Late July...

He shouldn't have tried to swallow that fish carcus whole. He should have shared. Greediness got the best of him.:(

There are always dead Pelicans there in the winter.
I saw one flying and hit an elect. pole and fell into the canes on the East side of Cal. Point last year.
Another one stole a Salty Cajun towel from my pocket and swallowed it.
Theys hongry in the winter.

Mean as suckers too.

When I was a new Green Hand Years ago we had a bunch of pelicans on the boat landing stinking it up. The Operator told me "Geaux down there and run dem nasty *** birds off Tboy." So I grabbed a deck brush and headed down the stairs to the boat landing. I thought I would just scare them off when I got down there. LOL NOPE! Those big old suckers spread thier wings and snapped those big beaks at me and ran me off. That old man was laughing so hard I thought he was going to have a heart attack.

Their beaks are soft. Don't hurt.
I got bit a few times while trying to clean fish last year.

Pluck it, gut it, throw it in a pot of roux and you have a seafood gumbo.

pelicans are good to eat just have to know how to cook um. go get you a 2x12 about 2 foot long and get a piece with the sap coming out. season the bird with tonys and stuff it with garlic onions bellpepper and mushrooms. make a open fire and set it up where the 2x12 and bird are about 16inches above the coals. cook for about 2 hours and when its done throw the bird in the trash and eat the 2x12.

Pelicans
 

On New Years eve we had a pelican follow us to every spot we went to. He would circle and land very close to the boat. When we made a cast his mouth would spring open as if he were getting fed:trolls:...then noticed he was banded...this guy must have had a lot of human contact, pretty neat stuff!!

For some reason I seen about 20 of em way up here on the river yesterday, hardly see em past Prien Lake..

If I were a betting man I'd say they are Refugees from spill....

The will dive and hit your topwater quick, fast and in a hurry too.

Not as tasty as Bald Eagle

You got that right...Love me some of dat

I wonder what the legalities are if you take one to a taxidermist?? I've always wanted a Pelican mount for a camp. That'd be prety cool.

Whe I worked at Calcasieu Locks they had one dead laid up on the rocks. He had a band on his foot but it didnt have a phone number.