{"id":100505,"date":"2022-03-09T04:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=100505"},"modified":"2022-03-09T04:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:49:03","slug":"four-double-crested-cormorants-resting-on-the-bank-of-the-bear-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/03\/09\/four-double-crested-cormorants-resting-on-the-bank-of-the-bear-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Double-crested Cormorants Resting On The Bank Of The Bear River"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FourFour Double-crested Cormorants next to the Bear River \u2013 Nikon D500, f11, 1\/800, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

After driving the auto tour loop at Bear River MBR<\/span><\/a> two days ago I stopped to photograph four Double-crested Cormorants resting on the bank of the Bear River. I was hoping to take a photo with all four cormorants facing my direction in the lovely morning light. That didn’t happen because a huge cloud blocked the sun not long after I took this image.<\/p>\n

I saw other Double-crested Cormorants at the refuge that morning but none of them were as cooperative as these four were. To be fair though these cormorants were on the other side of the river from where I sat in my Jeep photographing them so they didn’t feel threatened by my presence at all. The other cormorants may have felt that I was a danger.<\/p>\n

Double-crested Cormorants are extremely efficient at hunting their prey under the water. Since there are so many invasive carp at the refuge these cormorants can help by reducing the numbers of those fish.<\/p>\n

I enjoy seeing and photographing Double-crested Cormorants in many locations in northern Utah. I find these water birds at the ponds close to where I live, at Farmington Bay WMA, Bear River MBR, at the far north end of Antelope Island and other lakes, ponds, marshes, and rivers in the state.<\/p>\n

Now that the days are growing longer and warmer I expect that I will see these cormorants more often than I have over the winter months. Even though the weather is cruddy here today I may go down to my local pond this morning to see if I can find a few cormorants there to photograph in low light.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Double-crested Cormorant photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After driving the auto tour loop at Bear River MBR two days ago I stopped to photograph four Double-crested Cormorants resting on the bank of the Bear River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,27,1148,144,26],"tags":[4004,7476,4529,5548,5200,149,5596,4094,4173,5558,12679,8453,5113,5036,6917,5146,3996,1983,4095,373],"class_list":["post-100505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-double-crested-cormorant","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-bank","tag-bear-river","tag-cormorant","tag-cormorants","tag-double-crested-cormorant","tag-drying","tag-marsh","tag-nannopterum-auritus","tag-river","tag-river-bank","tag-snag","tag-stump","tag-sunning","tag-vegetation","tag-warming","tag-water","tag-water-birds","tag-wetlands","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/double-crested-cormorants-four-on-bear-river-mia-mcpherson-0074.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-q93","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40054,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/06\/17\/resting-double-crested-cormorant-at-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge\/","url_meta":{"origin":100505,"position":0},"title":"Resting Double-crested Cormorant at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I spent the morning at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge yesterday and one of the birds I photographed the most was this resting Double-crested Cormorant.","rel":"","context":"In "Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge"","block_context":{"text":"Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/utah\/bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Double-crested Cormorant resting on a stump, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/double-crested-cormorant-drying-mia-mcpherson-4892.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/double-crested-cormorant-drying-mia-mcpherson-4892.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/double-crested-cormorant-drying-mia-mcpherson-4892.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/double-crested-cormorant-drying-mia-mcpherson-4892.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":111204,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/03\/14\/double-crested-cormorant-on-the-bear-river\/","url_meta":{"origin":100505,"position":1},"title":"Double-crested Cormorant on the Bear River","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"March 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I photographed this adult Double-crested Cormorant at the end of March last spring as it swam by me on the Bear River. 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