Thank you! Very nice! --Ken Archambault, Alabama On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 9:53 AM, Isis Erb <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Just had to share something I read on the NY list serv. This is courtesy of Larry Trachtenberg: *I'm reading this funny, intelligent somewhat irreverent novel called “the wallcreeper” by Nell Zink -- about birding, (in)fidelity, eco”terrorism”, love and which takes place mostly in Europe -- Bern(e), Berlin, the Steckby-Lödderitzer Forest, Albania, with a brief stop in Tukwila, Washington **State--- anyway there's a wonderful passage about gulls I thought perfectly summed them up: "the many eerie transformations they undergo on their way from being indistinguishable to being basically identical."* I hope some of you enjoyed that description of gulls as much as I did. Happy Birding, Isis Erb Burlington, VT