Bob McGuire and I are looking at an adult male KING EIDER at myers
point right now. It us with a flock of mallards off the point.
Chris Wood
Ithaca, New York
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The adult male KING EIDER was still present on Cayuga Lake just north of the
spit at Myers Park in Lansing at 10:30 AM on Wednesday. Congratulations to Bob
McGuire on a fantastic find, and many thanks to Bob and Chris Wood for getting
the word out.
Also present were a flock of about 15 SNOW
I put a few photos of the King Eider male at Myers Point this morning at the
bottom of this page:
http://picasaweb.google.com/KevinJ.McGowan/Birds2010.
The distance and choppy water made it difficult to get much of anything, and I
didn't manage to get much of anything. But, there they are.
This is the first breeding plumage male King Eider for me.
I expected a beautiful bird like in the books, but it looked odd.
I was not able to stay long to watch it as it swam in the chop,
but I did not notice pink on the breast. I saw darker lines on
a slightly gray head (including a line
