This is getting a little silly, but our local (juvenile) cormorant was still at the pond today. The weather was dull and overcast, with a touch of drizzle and cooling wind. These aren't ideal conditions, and it's now becoming something of a challenge to find new angles on the running theme. Nevertheless, given that I photographed nothing else today, cormorants is what it is.
These first few shots were taken this morning in what proved to be the best light of the day. The cormorant was emerging from the pond as I drew up. It favours this sandy/grassy bank in the mornings when it's quiet.
I was back at the pond at lunchtime. The skies had darkened and there was a light drizzle. It took a while to find the cormorant, but eventually I located him (?) on some wooden piles at the edge of the small island.
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
KayFour
12 Aug 2011Not boring at all. What a handsome fellow.
anonymous
12 Aug 2011Anonymous writes:
Ditto.
I love your cormorant shots!
Marilyn
Dudley
12 Aug 2011:up:
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12 Aug 2011Erwin, thanks!
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12 Aug 2011Karen, he's a real star… and still there today.
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12 Aug 2011Cynthia, thanks!
Cynthia23
12 Aug 2011:up:
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12 Aug 2011Marilyn, thanks. I'm enjoying taking them 🙂
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12 Aug 2011Andy, thanks!
anonymous
13 Aug 2011Gaina writes:
Scruffy little tykes, I love them 😀 There were quite a few at Shapwick corner, one my local reserves this week.
SittingFox
14 Aug 2011I spy a gull in its winter clothes…
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14 Aug 2011Adele, it says something about our climate that mid August the gulls are already eschewing summer garb!
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14 Aug 2011Gaina, I completely agree. I usually see far more of them down at the coast (or on rare visits to London, but this lone youngster is providing the best photographic opportunities of any of them.
Wulpen
19 Oct 2012:up: