This morning 8/3 at West Point in Discovery Park, Lindy Birkel and I
saw 7 species of gulls (Glaucous-winged, Western, California, Heerman's
Ring-billed, Mew & Bonaparte's) many in nice breeding plumage along with
several in very confusing molts. There were also around 50 Caspian and a
dozen Common Terns. So, if you're feeling especially masochistic, go
gull watching at West Point one of these days .

BTW, moving in a small flock up and down the shoreline were 13 juvenile
Northern Pintails (I assume they were all juveniles). Is this unusual for
August?

David Buckley
lsdb at u.washington.edu