43. Brown Pelican

I'd been keeping an eye out for this bird all year because the Brown Pelican one of my favorites. Every time I've gone to the Bay, I look. Every time I've gone to the ocean, I look. And nothing. And then, all at once, they are everywhere. I saw the first three on the way home from Oakland, flying low over the Bay. A few days later, I saw them flying overhead just off the 101 on the way to San Mateo. And then, this weekend, I saw several, all over the Bay, as I sailed upon it. Have they been here all along, and I've missed them, or are they retrning from some far-off place? I don't know.