Estonia Birding trip 2- Stellar views of the Steller's!

The first area we tried for Steller's was Undva Palnk, which was a beach area where perced on top a small tree was fine Great Grey Shrike and further along the track near a pool of water, 1 Crane. Mist was rolling in making viewing conditions difficult. So we decided to move onto Saarema Saddam (Saddam means harbour in Estonian) and this was a lovely sheltered area, as we parked up a White Wagtail was seen here. We saw another fine male Long- tailed Duck complete with a long -tail, but again no initial sign of the Steller's. We saw Coot here. Until suddenly 20 minutes later out of the mist 2 absolutely superb male Steller's Eiders flew in and incrediby settled very close in by the rocky beach edge. This was amazing, as Johnny set up his tripod, Rob & I in a circular arc stooped low and using a large rock as cover got closer so the birds were only around 8- 10 metres away, they were feeding along the edge of the sea/ beach edge. They literally dabbled at the water's edge, 1 bird raised itself up on the water. Then they settled down, they spent quite a lot of time dabbling by the waters edge before occasionally swimming out a little way before returning to the waters edge, they seemed oblivious of our presence band we literally drinked in these wonderful birds. Sadly some of the rarest birds we have seen. They had a typical Eider squat bulky shap and a very wondrous artistic paintbox plumage. With grey bill, whitish head with a small greenish splodge patch in front of the eye and greenish small "bobbles" (2) along the sides of the nape. They a small area of black underneath the chin and collar with long black and white tertial feathers extending down the back with black uppertail area. The underparts were a pale orange peach colouration being more vivid on the breast and paler/ whiter near the rear flanks. A black spot was observed on the rear lower flank. (see pics, these are not cropped and reproduced almost as taken! lightened slightly)