While you folks were nursing hangovers on New Years Day, I was at the dump, thank you very much, photographing gulls. Here is an immature Iceland gull, which has been making local birders swoon since it showed up a few weeks back. I am working on a story and spread for the Hungry Horse News. The Flathead County landfill is a scavenger bird haven, full of ravens, gulls, starlings and the odd bald eagle. The place isn't exactly pleasant, but a heavy and persistent snow at least was covering things up. Many thanks to Dan Casey of the American Bird Conservatory for identifying the gulls as I photographed them and for giving me a tour of the place. The eagle is below. One of the most acclimated bald eagles I've ever seen, the bird could care less about me. It would swoop down and try to grab a gull every once in awhile.