2. The cormorant with that beautiful blue eye and hooked beak. |
3. Using its wings to steady itself. |
4. Happy as he came up in front of my kayak, |
5. Happy right in front of me. |
6. Happy as it started to rain, |
7. After a few beats Happy was airborne.
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8. A male cormorant telling a female that |
9. A look at another cormorant taking off, |
10. A floating barrier is a perfect perch for cormorants and
anhingas to watch the manatees swim by.
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11. Are you looking at me? |
12. Posing. |
13. Posing for me. |
14. This feather came loose, what should I do with it? |
15. Caught dinner. |
16. Quite wet. |
17. Another pose. |
18. Dinner is any fish caught! |
19. Catfish anyone? |
20. And down the hatch. |
21. Just waking up in the morning. |
22. A big yawn. |
23. A super shot. |
24. Early on a rainy morning. |
25. It was sprinkling but I took a chance.. |
26. Almost a sepia quality, the rain opened up after this. |
27. In flight. |
28. Almost airborne, sitting on a white pile cap. |
29. Sitting pretty. |
30. A portrait. |
31. A pair, a third was nearby. |
32. They look like a tank in the air. |
33. Comfortable on their perches. |
34. But an osprey landed just above them! The male on the left is protesting .. he was grabbing a leaf - "This is our area, not yours." it seemed to be saying. |
35. Then he squawked in protest. |
36. "See, all the way over to here, that is MINE". |
34. But he had to admit, the osprey (on the left) was going to ignore him. |
34. Fishing this morning. |
35. Water drops.
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36. More water drops at dawn. |