Tyler Bell and I went past the Sea Breeze Restaurant in Sandgates, MD, from 1-1:30 p.m. on 12/23/99. The Kelp Gull was hunkered down with a mixed flock of Herring Gulls, Ring-billed Gulls, and Great Black-backed Gulls on the pier of the Sandgates Inn Restaurant (the traitor!) It put on a great aerial display directly overhead with a GBBG dogging it, but Tyler couldn't quite get the video camera up and running in time. The owners and managers of the Sea Breeze asked me to pass on their happy holiday wishes to all who have come to know them through their association with the Kelp Gull. Here's wishing for a happy new bird, er, year, for all! Jane Kostenko jkostenko@somd.lib.md.us California, Maryland Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why they call it the PRESENT.