Patch tick!

A dawn twitch produced the goods - a superb male king eider feeding 150 metres offshore with a large group of common eider. Great views and a great patch bird. Just wish I had found it myself, I have been looking hard enough through all the eider this week. It is on part of the coastline I rarely watch though! The weather was pretty bleak, cold southerlies and snow on the cards, so I packed it in after searching out a possible vismig venue near the house. Just after I got back the snow came on strong for an hour, vindicating my wimp-like behaviour.