4:00pm - 6:30pm, July 28 Brownsville Overlook, Houston County Dedrick Benz and I shared in the time honored practice of staring at gulls. DISTANT gulls. What could be better? It could only have been improved by actually seeing a gull with a dark hood. But it was not to be. Perhaps in another 12 years. NOTE: Do not interpret this negative finding as implying that a Laughing Gull was not present...only that we chose NOT to see one. Of interest were some 6 adult (probable) Forster's Terns about 1.5 miles due east of our location. Even at this distance the black crowns were visible. Good luck, Jim Eagan P.S. Gulls rule! ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html