While I have not personally seen the Pelican, I have been reading all the recent reports and I subscribe to the view that there is probably one bird that has moved down the sound from an instinctive need to go South. From the Rye area it is in a bottle neck with only a narrow waterway, the East River, to continue its journey. I have never seen Brown Pelicans inland in Florida so I do not think it will take the Belt Parkway to get to JFK! Unfortunately I think we are looking at a case of where the bird will weaken and either it will die, or a responsible "rehabber" will get involved and arrange for it either to go to the Bronx Zoo, where they have Gannet wash-ups from the South Shore of LI, or relay it down to at least the Chesapeake. Sandy