The “Japonicus” American Pipit that Isaac reported the other day turned out to be an American race after he studied his photos.

Re: the Vega Gull. Several trips ago, while at the same spot (the fish factory outflow), I was fifty yards up the shore photographing Harlequin Ducks when Barb spotted a darker-backed gull in the gull flock. By the time I got back to the car, the bird was gone and I never saw it. She was confident that it was a Vega. So this trip’s bird was new for Frank, but not for Barb.