Recall that last Saturday (Dec. 26), we had two Iceland Gulls at Lake Redington (in front of the Patuxent Wildlife Center's Vistor's Center). One was a first-winter, with an all-dark bill, dark eye, and so forth, and the other a full adult as best we could see (it was sitting down on the ice). It had an all-grey mantle, white flight feathers with pale grey "shadow" markings such are seen in Kumlien's Iceland Gulls, and streaked head with a yellow bill. The Beaver Dam bird (if a second-winter) would be the third Iceland Gull in a 3-4 mile radius, at least, and that's assuming Phil's bird was the same one as we saw at Pax. Add to that a first winter Glaucous Gull (large or larger than Herrings, big pink bill with dark tip) which a number of folks have seen at Lake Redington, and four LBB Gulls seen there on Dec. 28, and it appears that the PWRC and environs is *the* local place for gulls this season so far. Does anyone have access to the local landfill (which would seem to be the local gull attractant?) Would be interesting to get some sort of complete count, since at any one time far more gulls are over the landfill than on the ponds. Gail Mackiernan gail@umdd.umd.edu