Lake Harriet is still mostly ice-free, though there is a nice ice shelf at its south end. This proved to be a good roosting spot for gulls this late afternoon. I counted about 1800 at 4 PM. While the vast majority of these were Herring Gulls, there were still several dozen Ring-billed Gulls, a few Thayer's Gulls (first-cycle, second-cycle and at least one adult), a first-cycle Glaucous Gull, and a second-cycle Lesser Black-backed Gull among them.
Lake Calhoun is mostly frozen. As these two lakes tend to freeze and ice-out together, I suspect both will be frozen over within the next day or two. Paul Paul Budde Minneapolis pbu...@earthlink.net ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
