ML644778628

Observation details

Found earlier this day. As I drove in I asked a driver leaving whether the bird was still here, he said it was on a log. When I arrived I saw no eider so scanned the area. Shortly it appeared on the log and remained for at least 20 minutes. Female type King Eider about 75 meters from the parking area. Over all a deep bodied brown duck with a short slightly upcurved bill, its eye high on the head with a light strip above the eye extending from the nares to its crown and a dark stripe extending through the eye from the corner of its mouth to the middle of the crown. See photo. Sam Strich and Kellen Apuna arrived followed by Alexandra Lamb, who all saw the bird. Meanwhile the eider slid into the water again for 5 minutes then got back on the log. Distant but good views of this bird.