A Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) takes off directly into the setting sun.
A Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) had been diving for fish along a narrow channel in a salt marsh. As it came to the end of the channel it surfaced a few feet where was was standing.
A Cormorant that had been diving for fish comes up out of the water to takeoff.
The wingspan of a Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) is 52". I shot this photo in September as the Cormorant flew below me skimming the surface of the water.
Cormorant skims along the surface of the water.
Cormorant Pair Take a Diving Break
Two Cormorants take a break from diving for fish and swim along a mudflat during high tide.
Cormorant in flight.
A lone Cormorant flies in the clouds.
Double-breasted Cormorant lifts off of the water and becomes airborne.
Two Cormorants skim the surface of the water.
Double-crested Cormorant In-water Portrait
As soon as it turns its head into a side view, this Double-crested Cormorant looks like a completely different bird.
Double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) fly from the ocean into the salt marsh for building materials. What amazes me is that they retrieve a single strand of grass (as the Cormorant is carrying in the image) or a single stick and fly back toward the ocean where they are building their nest.
A Cormorant swims up and down a main channel in a salt marsh looking for fish.
Double-creasted Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
A Cormorant's feathers are not water repellent and they have to spread their wings to dry them off. This Cormorant was drying off on a well traveled foot path and was not scared of the people passing by.
Today, the Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) were flying into the salt marsh, collecting sticks for their nests, and flying back out to the ocean.
A Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) takes off directly into the setting sun.
This Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) spent over 20 minutes splashing and diving in the main channel of a salt marsh.