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  1. Eider having a spot of Lunch

    Eider having a spot of Lunch

    The Eider eating a razor clamp on Loch Linnhe
  2. Tom St

    Common Eiders in the Netherlands (plumage question)

    Find attached a photo of a flock of Common Eiders photographed from the ferry near Lauwersoog in the Netherlands on 8th October 2022. Not a species ID question. I have marked two individuals with a plumage pattern corresponding neither to breeding-plumage males, nor non-breeding plumage males...
  3. eider migrating.jpg

    eider migrating.jpg

    Eider heading North
  4. Eider Lindö4.jpg

    Eider Lindö4.jpg

    Eider heading North
  5. Eider Lindö2.jpg

    Eider Lindö2.jpg

    Eider heading North
  6. Male Eider in Eclipse

    Male Eider in Eclipse

    Not a rare bird in the UK, but a rare bird in Norfolk! This Male turned up on the local beach over a month ago, and because he is in eclipse can't move on unless he paddles) until he has his new coat. He should be at least 200 miles further North really, but it was a nice sighting, and he has...
  7. Comon eider

    Comon eider

    Female common eider carefully looking around for predators as the ducklings are swimming nearby.
  8. Common Eiders

    Common Eiders

    I filmed these Common Eiders at Skälderviken, Arild, Sweden, from the rocks at the sea shore. It looks like the males already started their mating behaviour.
  9. Steller's Eider

    Steller's Eider

    Steller's Eiders peeling out.
  10. Steller's Eider

    Steller's Eider

    Steller's Eiders, males and females resting on a melt water pond near Barrow, Alaska.
  11. King Eider

    King Eider

    Kind Eider male feeding in a melt water pond in Deadhorse, Alaska.
  12. Eiders

    Eiders

  13. Male Eider

    Male Eider

    The Northumberland County bird
  14. Eider in flight at sea

    Eider in flight at sea

    The Eider duck had just taken off from the water. Again a very choppy sea on a boat. It's a wonder I managed to capture it at all!
  15. The beautiful Eider Duck

    The beautiful Eider Duck

    Most people say Eiderdown. Loads of these beautiful ducks on the Isle of May.
  16. Eiders Online or Homeward Bound

    Eiders Online or Homeward Bound

  17. Common eider with ducklings

    Common eider with ducklings

    Common eider with ducklings in the nest in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.
  18. Off to somewhere quiet

    Off to somewhere quiet

    This was the only female Eider I saw and I don't know where she popped out from. But the male was making sure she was just for him, wasn't he. LOL. He'd come down off that island with the three of them, so presumably she had been near there.
  19. Drake Eider

    Drake Eider

    The UK's fastest flying duck so I was well pleased to get this flight shot :D
  20. King Eider take-off

    King Eider take-off

    Drake King Eider taking off from the sea at Andoyane in Liefdefjorden.
  21. Eider

    Eider

    Eider
  22. King eider

    King eider

    So on a recent trip to Iceland I was made up photographing all the eider, then when I got home I noticed something else in this photo: a king eider. A bird I've long wanted to see was right in front of me and I didn't even notice it!
  23. Male Eider

    Male Eider

    We moved down further into the Montrose Basin to an area known as the Lurgies. Unfortunately the tide was pretty low, so distant birds again! This Eider scuttled out from near the bank, so all I got was a disappearing back view (par for the course) but a year tick all the same.
  24. Eider

    Eider

  25. Eider and Crab

    Eider and Crab

    Male Eider playing with Crabs down at Penzance.
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