Cormorant

Brilliant!!!!!

Excellent!!!! I agree, he looks like a traffic copper ... lol

Brilliant photos ... well done to your son, Holly! ... Often see these sitting atop the end marker poles of the groynes in the sea ... very medieval looking birds ... :o)

lovely pictures, they look like an ancient kind of a bird to me

Brilliant photos, Holly, well done to your son.

lovely photos Holly, tell your son from me aswell he's done great with them well done.

The moment I saw these brilliant pictures, this little ditty sprang to mind:-

The common cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag.
The reason you will see no doubt,
It is to keep the lightning out.
But what these unobservant birds
Have never noticed is, that herds
Of wandering bears may come with buns,
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.

No, before anyone asks, I didn't write it. Wish I had, though! :o)))))

I love watching cormorants dive. No matter how often i see it, I always experience a tense few moments after they disappear until they suddenly surface quite a bit away from the dive point with their catch.

Right a bit, Right a bit, Little bit more. Thats it.
Thank you so much!!
lol

Looks like he is conducting a choir!! Lol

with his cloak on!!

Was thinking Sticki of most church choirmasters who wear black cassocks!

oh yes thats true.

They are very good shots Dd, the bird was strutting his stuff especially for the photographer.....

Thanks guys.. glad you all enjoyed the pics ..... love your little ditty gattina... :))))... will tell my son you all liked his pics.... :)

lovely arent they, i often wonder if the one we saw rescued on the east coast survived, great pics Holly :o)

Fab pics Gattina! Give your son a pat on the back!

They're Holly's pics, Libet, not mine, much as I'd have liked them to be.......

Och! I'm so sorry, Gattina, and Holly, I'm such a twerp! :-/

Thanks everyone.... :))))