Search for King Eider at Blue Hill

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Cole Tiemann

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Mar 28, 2019, 9:31:23 PM3/28/19

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Today, I made the drive to Blue Hill Falls to finally cross the King Eider off of my life list, since it was seen yesterday. We searched for almost two hours with optics in the raft, but there was no King Eider. There was, however, 5 Barrow's Goldeneyes very close, as well as two interesting Common Eiders; one was very pale, and could possibly be an individual of the Northern subspecies (S.m.borealis) and the other was a hen with some white spots on the nape of her neck and cheeks as well. Old age, like with Redheads? Ebird checklist with pictures below.