These are my favourite birds – maybe along with starlings, but they always seem to be alone, which is why this group of 6 seem so startling – all lined up on their concrete – what are they? podiums? Like dudes in tuxedoes, they don’t care who’s watching them posing.
I love the different poses and the fact that they all seem to be ignoring each other. I think I discovered why they’re so often alone – one did a big projectile poo into the water. Here they are again
I also love the moorhen in the foreground, sort of a cormorant waiting promotion.
On my return most had left, so the remaining pair could relax a little. Less competition for who’s being the coolest?
Lovely pictures 🙂 birds make for amazing subjects! They are uniquely symmetric when they are in groups..like pigeons on the wires!
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Glad you like them I love watching them swim underwater & try to guess where they will appear
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I love cormorants too. I have occasionally seen them in gaggles round here, even competing in a subfusc way for the best wing-drying spots, while trying to pretend they were doing nothing of the sort – very comical.
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They remind me of Victorian ladies holding up their skirts to dry. Also saw one come up with a fish too big to swallow threw it up in the air but it sank. His confusion seemed evident or possibly just hungry
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That’s a lovely comparison.
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I love coromorants. We often get a stray loner wandering around the Fens, looking lost but trying to look cool and touristy when a local heron or swan spots him and gives him a “You and your lousy satnav” look 🙂
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Thanks. I’m intrigued why they are so seldom in groups. I used to see them with flocks of gulls looking as if they turned up at the wrong party but decided to stay anyway
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