I was at Sims Park this afternoon from 2:30 to 3:45pm. Temp approx 23F WNW wind 12mph. Still many scoters over 25 Still hundreds of Common Goldeneye King Eider - 1 first winter male At the far east "higher end" of the park I saw a different looking bird near the Goldeneye that I figured was a 1st winter KING EIDER. It was not anything like the female Goldeneye. It had a rich brown colored head that was brown part way down the neck and then changed to white abruptly. It had a long looking neck. The front of the breast was light colored but with dirty brown markings (streaks or something) Then the sides of the bird (brownish drab looking) were clearly and abruptly darker against the lighter breast in front. The bill looked yellowish and long but not knoblike on the top like the adults. It's eye was not real clear through my scope. I didn't see any obvious white markings on the sides of the bird like the female Goldeneye but I did see something white near the end of the bird once. It was swimming near the Goldeneye, then it separated and was by itself and was snoozing then diving, snoozing then diving. Nancy Anderson Richmond Hts, OH ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]