Corpus Christi, Texas resident warms up a shivering pelican that landed on his porch - pic

[Kadie]

In this photo provided Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, longtime Corpus Christi, Texas resident Gary Gorton warms up a brown pelican using a hair dryer at his home. Gorton told the TPWD officials he contacted to help with the pelican that the bird landed on his porch and was shivering due to the cold weather. Gorton told TPWD biologist Alex Nunez that he used the hair dryer for nearly two hours keeping the pelican warm. When TPWD officials showed up to capture the pelican, it flew off. Temperatures in the Gulf coastal city are below freezing today with snow in the 24-hour forecast.


pic from daylife.com

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I think the pelican liked it!

What a good thing for him to do.

He saved the pelican's life...

[Kadie]

12. He does seem to like it.

What a sweet man to sit there for 2 hours helping the poor little guy.

:)

[qnr]

2. That can't be true. It's tee-shirt weather here in Corpus

Sorry, just had the photo from last night readily available since I'd posted it in the Photography Group :)

[angstlessk]

7. dern...wool, long sleeve, t shirts.COOL..OR FRIGID!

[david13]

8. Oh, don't be sorry. That's a good one. dc

[Kadie]

14. brrrr....

:rofl:

[Odin2005]

3. Very cool!

:D

[Warpy]

4. The fact that the noise didn't scare the bird off

was proof of how cold the poor thing was.

Here, they've been struggling to keep the zoo animals warm with low gas pressure and disrupted supply.

This weather sucks. Damn climate change and the coal plants it rode in on.

[qnr]

5. Actually, they're pretty used to noise locally. They hang around fishermen with

running engines in their boats and trucks. I was out taking some photos a couple of weeks back, and I had a 'friend' that followed me around for about 90 minutes, at times sitting not more than 3 feet from me.

[Warpy]

9. "C'mon, ya slob, drop some FOOD!"

You know that's what he was thinking.

[qnr]

11. Heheh yeah.. actually, I knew one of the nearby fishermen and he gave me an eel

to give the pelican. :)

[rurallib]

6. I think he is slow cooking it.

[OnyxCollie]

10. LOL!

Durn funny-lookin' chicken.

[Kadie]

13. LOL

:)

[susanr516]

15. Did you hear about the folks at Red Dot saving the turtles?

The owners/employees pulled 25 cold-stunned sea turtles out of the Laguna Madre and brought them inside the bait shop. They had CCPD open the JFK causeway so 3 vehicles from the National Seashore could get the turtles to Tony Amos and his group.

http://www.kiiitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13974413