Still mid-30s on the ride in, not so warm today coming home, sunny and 45°. On the upside, I rode the MUP the entire way home, and it's about 90% slush and ice free. Not enough to ditch the studs, but more than enough to ditch the road route. I do like riding through Fairview and Downtown, so I think I might jump off the MUP early so as to keep the more fun section of the road route.

Gulls love ganging up on eagles. I used to pass many a summer evening at fish camp watching gulls harass eagles, trying to drive them off or get them to drop prey; and you can frequently catch hot gull on eagle action down at Westchester Lagoon here in Anch. There's a nesting pair of eagles that summer on the shore opposite the park every year, and sometimes when they come in over the lagoon, they'll have tail of up to two dozen gulls swarming and squawking around them. It's the old fighter versus bomber paradigm: gulls are too fast and agile for eagles to do anything about, unless the gull is stupid enough to fly directly into the eagle's talons