Certain birds because of their ubiquity can become part of the furniture of a place. When it comes to seabirds for me it is not the Gull, but the Double-Crested Cormorant.
Each morning they are swimming around Quonnie, sometimes 20 or so, but most times hundreds. This morning they covered the length of the pond I could see – from the Breachway to past a far rock.
Where the Cormorant goes, so goes the bird circus. When they are successfully fishing they are the bird equivalent of the sonar fish finder. Great Blue Herons, Snowy & Great Egrets, Least, Common & Forester Terns (with an occasional Black or Roseate) and Laughing Gulls flock above or next the them and join in the feeding. They make a racket, they make an occasional great photo and when they are done they come to rest.
The Cormorants sit on a far rock, wings spread to dry out. The Herons & Egrets return to the grass to digest. The Terns and Gulls often come to see me on the point. Washing and the Laughing Gulls continue to feed doing their stomping dance to stir up food.
On the point, I am part of the furniture and that’s the way I like it.


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