More than 3,000 gulls were counted in the Duluth-Superior area today; the vast majority were at the landfill and on Alouez Bay in Wisconsin. All birds at the landfill were observed from the public road outside of the fenced-in area. Ring-billed Gull -- 8 (plus 50 more at Canal Park, Duluth); Herring Gull -- 2,850 (plus 400 more at Canal Park, Duluth); Thayer's Gull -- 2 adults, one third-cycle, and two first-cycle (plus one more adult at Canal Park, Duluth); Iceland Gull -- adult "Kumlien's" on the Minnesota side of the Superior Entry at 0930; Slaty-backed Gull -- adult at Superior landfill 1053 to 1057 and from 1310 to 1333; Glaucous Gull -- 2 adults at Superior Entry, one second-cycle and one first-cycle at landfill (plus one adult at Canal Park, Duluth); Great Black-backed Gull -- first-cycle on Alouez Bay at 1145 and subsequently refound at landfill. -- Peder H. Svingen Duluth, MN