I waited for three hours yesterday afternoon to testify in Federal District Court in downtown Columbus. It never happened because witnesses before me took longer than expected, so I was on at 9 this morning instead. The one great outcome of this delay occurred when I took a restroom break from my vigil around 4 (yesterday). This was also a great lesson in always carrying ones binoculars (in my case in my backpack/office.) What I assume is the aforementioned Iceland gull was on the east bank of the high-water Scioto River, loosely associating with a group of fifteen ring-billed gulls and one red-breasted merganser, and wonderfully viewable from the window of the third floor Men's Room of the Federal Court House. I was alone, and so avoided what probably would have been alarm at the nerd. This was an essentially all-white second-year bird with just a hint of gray in the wings and tail. The gray was nicely visible when it hopped up on a bit of debris lodged against the flooded bank, spreading its wings and tail briefly for a subtle but glorious display. The court house in question is at 85 Marconi, downtown Columbus, a block north of the Broad Street bridge, and a little north of where this bird (I assume the same bird) has been otherwise reported. I have always treated the gulls as species that I figured would eventually come to me. I do not chase lifer gull species. It is very satisfying when they appear, even more so when in the most unexpected of places and circumstances. Bob Evans Geologist, etc. (from Hopewell Township, Muskingum County) ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]