Chet Meyers writes: This evening (Oct. 13) a single lesser black-backed gull, a lone Franklin's gull and a few hundred herring, and many hundred ring-billed gulls were on Calhoun, and close enough for good observation. Earlier I birded Dakota sod farms (2 Amer. golden plovers) and Purgatory Creek (completely flooded). Looks like shorebirds are about done for the year. Chet Meyers