thanks so much! i hope to be at the spit tomorrow also, but not 100% sure. i've seen the redpolls there twice before but seemed to spook them away both times. when i was last at the spit, i DID see the eiders, but walked right past them, thinking they were black ducks! they had their heads low and their bills hidden! but they were there, near pipit point, in the area people sometimes call "cell 4" along with the mallards and the swans...
thanks again!
david b.