Hello everyone. I just got back from another stop into the town park and was 
very disappointed at first. The Ice was all gone and there was about 400 gulls 
either sitting on the grass or bouncing around in the harbor. All Ring-billed Gulls. 
This was around 4:25. There was a flock of about 1000 gulls about 2 miles out. 
I figured that was the flock I wanted to see so I just gave up. I packed it up and 
started to head out when I saw a steady stream of gulls heading down from the 
landfill in my direction. So I stopped, got out and started scanning the flow of gulls 
which was about 5 to 6 birds wide and endlessly long. The second bird I set my 
eyes on was a first year Iceland. So I continued to scan, 5 minutes later the 
Glaucous Gull flew right over. Than about 2000 birds later, I had another Iceland. 
Then there was 6 birds all chasing each other around in a different direction, one 
of them had something the other birds wanted. Looked like a bagel.Anyway the 
one gull I was thinking was another White-winged Gull in the chase, became the 
first year Thayer's. So it seems that they have been getting later as the sun sets 
later. This is the same thing that happened the other day at the park when I was 
getting ready to leave. A steady stream was coming in and landing which may be 
why Hans only had one Iceland, and I had 3. Most of them landed between the bad 
lighted green marker and inside the town park. One Iceland landed on the grass 
next too the pavilion. Oddly enough I had no Lesser Black-backed Gulls. They may 
have been there but I wasn't really looking for them.
Also present were about 2000 plus Common Mergansers. They were everywhere!
Sean McCandless