Boat tour: Norwalk Harbor to south side of Chimon Is. then working the deeper water east to Sunken Island in Fairfield. The return trip was inside the islands. 2:30 to 4:30 with Larry Flynn, Frank Mantlik, Dennis Varza We started in the area south of Chimon Islands where Larry had the large numbers yesterday. The area was practically empty. We then worked our way to the east were birds were reported at Southport Beach and Sherwood Is. In the off shore area from Southport Beach To Penfield Reef Birds were everywhere. Looking in the water, we saw brown ribbons of clustered larvae. In some areas the larvae were below the surface and in such density as to turn the water brown. On the return trip closer to shore thousands more were found from Southport Beach to Cockenoe Island. The number of birds observed were so large that the estimates are very loose. We have come to believe that the gulls seen yesterday in Norwalk are the same ones in Fairfield today. And, likely the same ones in Stamford earlier in the week. It seems that they travel further than expected to find the barnacle plumes. Earlier in the week when Frank and myself had no gulls in the Bridgeport-Stratford area and they were not directly off shore, they were likely in the Norwalk-Stamford areas. A quick look at reports of others show observations ranging from Greenwich to Milford. Tomorrow I will go through them to create a general report. My thanks to everyone for looking for gulls for us. Dennis Varza Fairfield Brant 500 Canada Goose 2 Mute Swan 3 Gadwall 4 American Wigeon 25 American Black Duck 400 Mallard 3 Green-winged Teal 4 Greater Scaup 8,000 White-winged Scoter 120 Long-tailed Duck 150 Bufflehead 22 Common Goldeneye 10 Red-breasted Merganser 6 Common Loon 4 Northern Gannet 1 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Great Cormorant 3 American Oystercatcher 3 Bonaparte’s Gull 5 Barnacle Gulls 30,000 75% Ring-billed, 25% Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull 20 Tree Swallow 1