Ontbirders, Although we relocated the eider early this morning, once again the lighting conditions were less than ideal and our views of the bird were still quite distant.
By mid morning the lighting improved and the bird became more cooperative offering much closer views than yesterday evening. After prolonged study and examination of photographs taken today, we have reasons to believe that "the eider" is a hatch year male King Eider, Not a Common Eider as we thought yesterday. Eider identification is always challenging, especially under adverse conditions. We welcome any comments and thoughts from anyone who has viewed this bird. Cheers, Brett Fried Barb Charlton Janice Chard Sent via Blackberry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:37:55 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [Ontbirds] Fw: Common Eider - Bowen Rd. Park - Fort Erie, ON Ontbirders: The Common Eider is currently being seen at the same location in Fort Erie. See post below. Cheers, Barb Charlton Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. From: Brett Fried Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Ontbirds] Common Eider - Bowen Rd. Park - Fort Erie, ON Ontbirders, To expand on Barb's post, I just wanted to make some corrections in regards to the location where we saw the Common Eider. We parked on the shoulder of the Niagara Pkwy adjacent to Bowen Road Park which is where we located the bird. This location is across the river from Rich's Marina and north from the International RR Bridge. Also to clarify, the Common Eider was a female bird. Also for those who are interest we first noticed the bird floating down river (north), irregularly diving. It eventually floated down river almost out of sight and with a stroke of luck the bird flew back up river (south) right past us!! You can see our ebird checklist below as well as the photos I obtained. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15699521 Cheers, Brett FriedGuelph, Ontario Directions: The directions should be attached below at the bottom of this email. Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:23:05 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [Ontbirds] Common Eider - Fort Erie - Niagara river. Ontbirders: Brett Fried, Erika Hentsch, Janice Chard and I just had a Common Eider in the Niagara river at Fort Erie just north of the Peace Bridge across from "Rich's Marina". We were fairly certain when Brett first spotted the bird it was a Common, not a King Eider but the bird drifted further out into the river and the lighting conditions became worse. Just when we thought we might be left wondering, the bird took flight and flew up river past us for positive identification. Photos taken by Brett. We also had Franklin's, and a Little Gull at this location Cheers,Barb Charlton Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 19:56:26 -0800 Subject: Queen Elizabeth Way to Niagara Pkwy - Google... From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Queen Elizabeth Way to Niagara Pkwy - Google MapsDriving Directions View or comment on Brett Fried's post »Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Learn more.Join Google+You received this message because Brett Fried shared it with [email protected]. Unsubscribe from these emails. You can't reply to this email. View the post to add a comment. Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
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