About 3:30pm today (8 March), just as I was starting a class with home-schoolers at Stewart Park, I found a beautiful all-white immature GLAUCOUS GULL in the very shallow lake water near shore where the usual 3 gull species were resting. Shortly afterward all the gulls took flight for unknown reasons, and after they resettled I did not see it again. Not all the kids had even arrived, and only a few got to see it through my scope, but still it was pretty cool to show them an obviously different gull and explain how it was so uncommon here. After my class broke up I met Jeff Gerbracht scanning through the gulls: no Glaucous, but he did find a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL.
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