Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Birds

I was climbing around on some cliffs like places off the trail and there was this narrow canyon type place and I looked down and there were these birds.
I looked them up in the bird book when I got back and can't find them, there was something similar without the little head bump and yellow throat....
Perhaps this is the winter/spring dressing of the cormorant?
The puffins are back early this year, did you notice them in a garden foto?
There are many birds and they are announcing spring with a cacophony for sure. I can't identify many of them, but have been looking through the bird book furiously. There are loads of greylag geese and water birds, wishing I had binocs!
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4 comments:

  1. The black bird with the yellow near its mouth is a Shag (phalacrocorax Aristotelis).

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  2. It is very similar to the cormorant. The common name originates from the word 'skegg' which is Old Norse for beard (referring to the bird's crest).

    Where are the puffin pics?

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  3. Puffin show up in the garden fotos.

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  4. oh THANX" I knew it wasn't a cormorant but folks here were trying to convince me that it was.
    The color and top knot just didn't make sense. And the bird book here didn't have the Skegg.

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