Chet Meyers writes: Birding on one windy day demonstrated that not as many gulls come into Lake Calhoun as when the wind is down. That said, the lesser black-backed showed up, as it usually does, about 15 minutes before sunset. Also, mixed in with the ring-billed gulls were two Bonapartes, the first I have seen on Calhoun this fall. Glaucous gulls yet to come and maybe something special. Chet Meyers, Hennepin County

