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Greetings, VTBIRDers: In the lovely maelstrom of Bonaparte's Gulls you may find humility and opportunity. Among the swirling flock at the Tri-Town Water District Plant in Addison yesterday there were at least two Little Gulls: an adult and a second-winter bird. Without going into all the details, the adult shows dark underwings edged cleanly in white, and clean gray upperwings (without the bold, white flash of an adult Bonaparte's Gull). The second-winter bird (about 18 months old or so, entering the second winter of its life) showed medium-to-dark gray underwings with paler wing linings (underwing coverts) AND a dark subterminal smudge on the upper-side of the wing tips. We could see all this (and more) with scopes from, oh, at least a half mile away. We found no first-winter Little Gulls yesterday. (Life can be so unfair.) Elsewhere, Snow Goose numbers have risen a bit at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area in Addison in the past few days, with recent counts (depending on the counter) ranging from 1700 to 3000. I'll keep updating my Snow Goose Scoop page at: http://bryanpfeiffer.com/the-snow-goose-scoop/ Best, Bryan Pfeiffer -- [log in to unmask] http://www.bryanpfeiffer.com