On our morning walk today as we were returning along the Lagoon Boardwalk we noticed a large group of Australian Pelicans heading towards the entrance to the Lagoon. I expected them to be in pursuit of a school of fish and to form a circle and start feeding. When we got past the last vegetation we found that they weren't doing that, but rather forming a mob of 28 birds on a sand bank.
They then formed an orderly queue and swam under the boardwalk. The water level was so low under the boardwalk that they emerged walking in an organised line!
Some didn't enter the Lagoon but the episode concluded with all on the Left swimming up the Lagoon and round the bend. They didn't seem to pause to feed anywhere in this process.
Please explain? From time to time I refer to motorists that seem to have got their licence in a Weetbix box as Pelicans: this seems to justify that epithet for the cognitively challenged!
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