what aerodynamic piece of food can you throw a pelican, just so you can see him open his beak wide and snatch it from its trajectory?

yesterday an afternoon jaunt to centennial park saw mss amber and ella berry and me amusing ourselves with a host of pelicans, quite a few water fowl, some ducks and a few swans. sensing lunch, the pelicans swoop out of the sky, across the lake and right into the throng of smaller birds, their beaks like awnings over the heads of the others. hanging open. feed me.

we threw them stale baguettes, crusts cut from vegemite sandwiches, a few crumbs of polenta cake, and three jalsberg sandwiches.