Ridgeway -
I care - also saw one last Saturday and Sunday at Jeff head. like you it was the first I had seen in Puget Sound in nearly 50 years of fishing the area. While they have been common on the lower Columbia for a number of years the brown pelican has only been regularly noticed locally in the last years or so (have seen white pelicans several times). I checked with some of birding friends and they report that pelcians have been seen in the last month or so from Olympia north to Smith Island.

I also agree it is just another sign that conditions are changing and likely not for the better for our local fish populations.

Tight lines
S malma