I mean who ever heard of such a thing??  A Human being nursing wildlife back to health?  This should make for a real page turner…

And do you mind, really, going light on the constant reference to said Pelican’s age?  This is getting “old.”   Tedious even.  And I guess things are pretty slow around these parts if a banded Pelican is part of the local lore and lexicon…  “oh, do what you want to all the other Pelicans, but don’t touch that old one- that’s the one that Jessica Canupp nursed back to health and released back into the wild.  Made the local paper and everything…”

Trying to ID the birds in panel one…  I keep landing on a Crane of some sort…