Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about cormorants.
Look at a cormorant's plumage from a distance and it seems as though it's coal-black, but a bit of sunshine makes all the difference.
Bright sunlight glancing off their outstretched wings reveals a bronze iridescence ...
..... but in a more diffuse light there's indigo in the chest and wing feathers....
.... while this juvenile has a hint of bottle green in the crown and tail plumage.
All 'a trick of the light'.
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I haven't been close enough to notice!
ReplyDeletevery conveniently, the cormorants on this stretch of the Tyne often pose close to the bridge at Wylam
DeleteSorry to hear that cormorants are so despised by anglers (Guardian article) -- it's always a treat when they make a stop on the Laramie River, not a common thing.
ReplyDeleteIt's jealousy, maybe, because the cormorants aresuperior fish catchers!
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