I'm used to seeing one or two cormorants fly past, or a small group perched on buoys or rafts in the varous lakes around nottingham. But today at Colwick Park I saw well over thirty all perched high in trees on one of the islands. Quite a weird sight. I saw the first one in silhouette and assumed it was a heron, then looked through the binoculars and saw it was a cormorant - and then I noticed that all the "rooks" around it were cormorants too! Spectacular.
They are great birds, we have a number reside on an uprooted tree on the river in Durham City
Of all creatures, man is the most detestable, he is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. ~ Mark Twain
I always think they look slightly demonic. Impressive creatures, though.
LOL Hi Birdwatcher, is that the river with the weir? (Great photo, by the way!)
The necessity of bird-watching is a really good reason for avoiding all forms of housework.
The dust will still be there tomorrow - the birds may not be!
It is squirrel they use it as a vantage point and drying off perch. Never saw them this near until the tree appeared