During the winter and spring, a group of American White Pelicans find a safe haven at Fern Ridge Lake. I observed a large group of them in Kirk Pond below Fern Ridge Dam in the spring. Strangely, though the group has gone, likely to other parts of Fern Ridge Lake or elsewhere, one lone pelican remains at Kirk Pond. It is often sitting on this log in solitude.

Cormorants are quite often seen in the company of pelicans, but they have moved on. So the pelican has the pond to itself, along with some geese and a variety of ducks.