Hi Tweets...After I posted the eider sighting, I called Ruth Sullivan and
she said she would come out to see it. I waited an hour then went out there
and watched the bird for about an hour before Ruth showed up and confirmed
the I.D. The eider is still there as of 2:30PM, still hanging with about 12
Surf Scoters in and around the pilings. To find it take Point Brown Ave
through O.S. to the end and bear right past Damon Point (where it becomes
Marine View Dr.) The beach access is across from the big water storage tower
on Marine View Dr...just west of the base of Damon Point. Walk out onto the
beach and to the right is a string of old pilings; the bird was there.

If you are coming out...new speed laws in effect and being enforced...4th of
July traffic is a bear. But this bird is definitely a female
breeding-plumaged King Eider, and hats off to Hank Vail for finding it! Ruth
will be taking photos.

Dianna Moore
Ocean Shores, Wa.
dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com