Welcome eye for vagrants

I had a dream about a pelican last night. It was all a bit odd, as dreams often are. 

The pelican was a lone bird (they’re normally found in flocks) and it was on a wetland in Ireland, It spent some of the time in the air and some of the time on the water, fishing. In my dream I was quite excited by it and kept pointing it out to other people and lending them my binoculars so that they could get a better view.

When I woke up I was a bit puzzled by this dream and decided to do a bit of checking. The strangest birds sometimes turn up as vagrants in this country. Have we ever had a visit from a pelican? I soon found some excellent pictures of a great white pelican in Cork Harbour that were taken by a birder in 2014.