Surprise Cormorant
Nature Journal August 10, 2018...
Photographer: William Wise | iNat Observation: 17336831 - Double-crested Cormorant; Walton County, Georgia. August 10, 2018. ©williamwisephoto.com
Friday, 8:32 AM – You never know what you’ll see. After literally hundreds of morning walks up to the small pond behind my office, this morning there was something I had never seen before. At first I thought the splash in the brown murky water was one of the beavers ending a night of tree-felling and heading back to his home. But when the creature surfaced, it had a much longer neck than a Beaver!
A Double-crested Cormorant popped up out of the water with a fish in his hooked bill. Since it didn’t immediately notice my presence, I was able to watch it fish for several minutes. Once his senses picked me up, he took to the air, circled the pond twice (giving me some great photo-ops!) and moved on.
Although not a rarity for Walton County, that is the first cormorant I’ve seen on this particular pond, and not sure when I’ll see one again.
- Walton County, Georgia, USA
- Sunrise 6:51 am; Sunset 8:25 pm
- Daylight Hours: 13 hours, 33 minutes (-1m 45s)
- Moon: 1.2% Waning Crescent
- eBird checklist: S47776777
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Very nice photo - couldn’t have posed it better! I get the feeling that they are not well liked my way in the Great Lakes region because they compete with fishing and are such messy nesters (see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56442551), but they are still rebounding from DDT and have an important role in our ecosystem. Thanks for sharing!
I really enjoy your journal notes. Can you tell me "how" you get a photo at the beginning of your post? I've also seen that you sometimes post multiple photos with supporting information for each one. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to do that.
@kencheeks There is a good bit of useful info here. Thanks!
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/useful-html-tags-for-inaturalist-comments-and-other-text-wiki/6198
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