My grade nine Latin's coming back to me

tempus fugit, etc.

I used to take the provincial train three towns east and then a bus so as to wander by the marshy hinterlands and hopefully observe an insectival occurrence called a ghost midge hatch!¹ The funky locus was also home to at least a thousand Bonaparte’s Gulls, and still more thrilling, their rare and kooky² cousins — LITTLE GULLS, who look practically identi…