CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about cormorants. Look at a cormorant's plumage from a distance and it seems as though it...

Roker pier and lighthouse, at the mouth of the river Wear in Sunderland. A fine place for a stroll on a summer's afternoon like today, w...

On our walk along the coast today from the National Glass Centre in Sunderland to Seaburn we passed several cormorants near St. Peter...

"On the land they are dull and heavy" wrote the Reverend F.O. Morris B.A., describing cormorants in his A History of British Bi...

Keith, who blogs here , has just posted some fine photos of cormorants, which put me in mind of this interesting piece of ornithologically...