Twitchers - what's this bird

[berni109]

I know it's a cormorant photo taken in north Spain

 

[AndyPK]

Yes, it is!

 

[AndyPK]

Or is it a Shag….? Did you see its eye colour…..?

 

[Nigel Crompton]

Do you not know the difference between a cormorant and a shag ?

 

[Mikeco]

It’s near water so it’s obviously a Kingfisher

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[Podney]

I think it might be a cormorant,the photo taken in north Spain.

 

[Debs]

Birds of Europe: Nuptial flush

mdahlem.net

Is it this looking at the photo in the link ?

 

[pappajohn]

Grebe

 

[berni109]

Debs yes I think you are right. Never heard of that before.
Obviously the randy little devil is hopeful.
Nigel Crompton AndyPK at 75 I can just about remember what a shag is like.

 

[Genear]

I can recommend a good App for helping out any non-twitchers (like me) - Merlin Bird ID - works both by sound and photo; the kids and I love it!

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[Pappy]

On a boat trip down the Thames many years ago my mum heard someone watching the birds say “I can never tell the difference between a cormorant and a shag”. She said “no wonder his wife looks so miserable “.

 

[Nigel Crompton]

Debs yes I think you are right. Never heard of that before.
Obviously the randy little devil is hopeful.
Nigel Crompton AndyPK at 75 I can just about remember what a shag is like.

Very, very dark green, beautiful in the sun, and with green eyes like buttons ... same profile as the slightly larger cormorant.

 

[Nigel Crompton]

For those that don't know the difference (ahem!) between a cormorant and a shag, well shags are seldom seen far from salt water

 

[carolyn]

DBK may be your man?

 

[Silver-Fox]

Do you not know the difference between a cormorant and a shag ?

I used to

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[Silver-Fox]

DBK may be your man?

It’s definitely not a type of bee

 

[Jev88]

Great Cormorant.

White patches on head apparently.

 

[DBK]

Cormorant in courtship plumage.

 

[AndyPK]

I know it's a cormorant photo taken in north Spain
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This one in the Abbey Grounds, Ciren, this afternoon……

 

[Chuns]

The Common Cormorant or Shag​

by Christopher Isherwood
The Common Cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag.
The reason you will see no doubt
It is to keep the lightning out.
But what these unobservant birds
Have never noticed is that herds
Of wandering bears may come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.

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[B+W vanman]

This one in the Abbey Grounds, Ciren, this afternoon……View attachment 1026803View attachment 1026828

And the one studiously ignoring its larger foreign neighbour is the “Common, or Grumpy, Funster”

 

[bobnick]

Nice fish in here......

 

[nicholsong]

View attachment 1029617Nice fish in here......

Strange caption for photo of someone standing with their hands inside their shorts? !