A real no-brainer for this week’s WordPress challenge: “Gathering”. I immediately thought of my cormorant shots from this past August.
A whole bunch of them had gathered in a yard on a dead tree, by a retention pond, a few miles from where I live. I spotted them while we were driving past(hubby thought they were just a bunch of crows…Hah!!)….As soon as we got home, I grabbed my camera, a rain jacket and I jumped on my bicycle and hurried back there, hoping that the cormorants would still be gathered there…. And they were!
The view from across the pond:
Unfortunately the cloudy day made for very boring skies in the zoomed in(and cropped) shots. And I did get a little bit of rain..but it didn’t dampen my delight.
I took a lot of zoom in shots, as the birds kept flying in and flying out, though some birds never moved during the whole shoot. I will only post 2 here…since you can get the drift of the cormorant dynamics well with these examples:
“Total indifference” in the first shot:
(click twice to enlarge the photos)
And “get out of my space” in this shot for the 2 birds affected by the in-coming cormorant (and total indifference for the un-affected birds):
Quite the GATHERING!!! I can’t imagine how the home-owners felt about having these birds in their yard…but I know I would have been in photography heaven if it had been my yard.
Linking to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge here.
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Great shots – I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many together before.
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What an amazing moment you have captured. I have only every seen Cormorants on the water.
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They sure do like each other’s company, don’t they? lol
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Great capture of cormorants! 🙂
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Gorgeous shots!
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Nice action and variety of poses. The dull sky also did not cause annoying shadows, so your cormorant images appear to have more depth.
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Really spectacular images of birds on the tree. I’m used to seeing a lot of smaller birds in a tree, so these are really special pictures.
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Great captures – love them
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love how you’ve captured the birds
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I’d never heard of cormorants until I traveled to Alcatraz Island, where they are plentiful. So funny when you learn something new and then you see references to it 🙂 Great shots, Marsha.
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That second shot is great!
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Wow. I love how you captured the wing span in the first photo!
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