Common Eider

By early June, the Common Eider swoops into the park’s coves and bays. This is when you can watch the males, in breeding plumage, court the females with cooing songs. It’s the art of seduction at its finest…later the females return to the shoreline with broods that can be seen gathering in small groups called “crèches”. Baby and adult birds then feed on scuds and blue mussels.