Double-crested Cormorant coming in for a landing – Nikon D200, handheld, f7.1, 1/800, ISO 200, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 135mm, natural light
As I continue to work on moving my photo galleries I have come across images that I am reprocessing or processing for the first time and this is one of those images that I hadn’t touched. I was photographing birds in flight from the Gulf Pier at Fort De Soto when this Double-crested Cormorant flew in for a landing. I photographed this as the cormorant flew over my head to land on a light pole right above me.
This is a young cormorant and part of the reason the tail looks tattered is that the cormorant is going through a molt, the four central feathers of the tail are fresh and coming in, the outer ones are worn and would soon be replaced after I took this image.
I’m glad the Double-crested Cormorant didn’t decide to relive itself as it came in to land or I might have been wearing white-wash!
Life is good.
Mia
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Jeeeez! You came awfully close to becoming “Guano Girl”….!!!
LOVE that perspective.
Mia,
Is that why the pheasants tails look so scruffy in the winter? I thought they were fighting to make the others look bad for the ladies in the spring 🙂
I was photographing a gull overhead & it DID relieve itself. Ugh. I never knew that about the tail feathers of the cormorant. And, of course, great shot of the overhead cormorant.