Chet Meyers writes: Keith Olstad and I birded Calhoun this evening (11-14) and the lesser black- backed gull, that was missing for a few days, was back, once again arriving about ten minutes before sundown. One other strange gull but it was too dark to do any positive ID. Hopefully the nasty weather will move some glaucous gulls down our way. P.S. While the Ross's goose at Hiawatha jumps out at you (at least before the snow arrives) try finding the one or two cackling geese among the 1,000 Canada's; and bring your calipers as their are at least three or four different subspecies of Canada geese present. The cacklers I found may have been intergrades. They had the head and bill of a cackler (Richardson's) but their body was only a tad smaller than the some of the lesser Canadas. Not like the tiny cackler that was at Lakewood Cemetery two months ago. Chet Meyers
