What sort of bird is this??
 

been off on one of my 8 mile jaunts today along the canal on my bike...and i came across this rather menacing looking bird, i dont know what it is....can anyone tell me? its not a duck or a swan or a goose

its not right close up...sorry

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looks like it could be a Cormorant , must be plenty of fish about

Cormorant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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yeah it could be, thanx for that


its wings where huuuuuuuuge, an old woman was trying to pass it with her dog but was too scared...till i sauntered upto it on my bike to take a pic, then she passed me rather cautiously

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Try this one Flashy.......................Grey Heron

The RSPB: Grey heron#

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thanx Roy

if you zoom in on my pic (if you can) you will see that it has flappy things on the ends of its wings, kinda like paddles, right at the back, it looks like its stood on them... cant see those on the heron

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I'll go for a cormorant Flashy ... get one on my lodge now and then, they will go into the water and dive down for food, whereby a heron will only hang/wade about on the banking to catch its fish.

Also, you wouldn't have not got anywhere near a heron before it flew off ... very nervous birds. Definitely not a heron... they spot my movement behind my patio door and off they go.

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That'll be the frills on your baby doll nightie.;)

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Yep...............I'll go for that.

The RSPB: Cormorant

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yeah that explains the flappy bits that look like they are on the end of its wings...i took the pic because i've never seen one on the canal before....i'm off to do another 8 miles again tomorrow, i'll see what funnies i can snap then ;)


thanx everyone :D

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Deffo a cormorant. Saw it myself in the water - they look very low down. The curved end of the beak is a giveaway too.

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i'll go fer cormorant, cos i know a goose when i see one, n that aint it.:D

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I love watching the cormorant .. once it dives, love to try and guess where it will emerge again .. bit like 'Spot the Ball' with wild life... :D

You bin spying on me Garinda ? :D

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That's Dr. Garinda Dolittle.

It's amazing what Mr. Heron tells me, when he flies over from your lodge to mine.:D

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Your right Cashy, the Goose was taking the picture.

Retlaw.

:hidewall:

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most likely a Cormorant.....but then it could be the
Phalacrocorax aristotelis (Shag)

http://www.realbirder.com/Birds%20in%20Britain/Shag.jpg

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Think you should emigrate immediately Retlaw before Flashy recycles you .. :D http://planetsmilies.net/angry-smiley-8013.gif

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nooooooooooo i know a decent (shag) when i see one mancie :D ; :D and i dont think thats one



















ok i'm going

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Shag is another name for a cormorant:)

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maybe he just likes typing the word Margaret? ;)

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Or could be another reason flashy:rolleyes:

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could there? :rolleyes:

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ooooooooooooooooh yessssssssssss:D

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well its better looking than some i woke up next too.:D bitter has much to answer for.:eek:

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not so Margaret...although part of the same family, Phalacrocorax carbo is the Comorant....were as Phalacrocorax aristotelis is the Shag! (I do like saying that) ;)

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Must have been dodgy ale you were supping. Have a read at this: 'Myth' of beer goggles

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Think they need to get out more at Leicester University, yerself:rolleyes: Its how cashy tells it in the University of life:D

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The world as viewed through cashman's beer goggles.:D

http://www.tjhope.com/stuff/picture_...eergoggles.jpg

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Good god them specs don't half make people look ugly :rolleyes: :D

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Hell Fire...............I bet Cashy would prefer waking up next to the Cormorant? :D;)

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MANCIE...if this goes into the over 18's i'm blaming you for leading these men astray ;)

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fear not shaz, being a vicars son, i would never be led astray.:D;)

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The cormorant, or common shag,
Lays eggs inside a paper bag.
But what these unobservant birds
Have failed to notice is that herds
Of wandering bears will come with buns,
And steal the bags to keep the crumbs.

Or so thinks Ogden Nash.:D

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Before it gets moved to a place I'm not allowed .... next time you go where you may see this verminous shag (or cormorant), leave your camera at home and take your shotgun .... kill it .... these birds are pests. We have thousands around here ... it's open season ... shoot on sight:uzi:

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Oops ... missed a couple of lines out of the poem ... should know better than to use my brain when I'm stoned:

Here we go again; ahem:

The cormorant, or common shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag.
The reason you will see, no doubt,
It is to keep the light'ning out .... etc

Now, that makes more nonesense ...

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Unlike you Canadian 'cousins' .. here in the U.K. we leave the culling of vermin to professionals who will do it in a humane manner, not some idiots out at the weekend taking wild, amateur pop shots with loaded dangerous weapons at these beautiful birds .... :mad:

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Thats what hapens when you go to Specsavers.
Whales look like Mermaids.
Retlaw.
:hidewall:

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I will pass that on to my daughter who is the practice manager at Specsavers in Blackburn..
I dont think the brick wall will save you. :rolleyes:

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There's a new TV ad for Specsavers running at the moment Roy, it shows an old couple out for the day and they sit down for a butty, then all of a sudden these bars come down and clamp them to the seat, there on the blood roller coaster:D as they walk away after the bloke say what kind of these was that:D The fun thing about it is that my other half was asked if she would do the ad and her answer was, when she found out it was on a roller coast, not bloody likely:D

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Humane! ... yeh, like miximytosis, remember that? ... ah well, one person's beautiful bird is another man's destructive pest ... there is no danger of these things becoming an endangered species ... not here anyhow. If you would like a few thousand let us know .... could throw in a few hundred baby harp seals too.:eek:

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What have lead ashtray's got to do with anything :confused:

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Careful bud, you are slurring your words ... ;)

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ah..so it was not you spotted hangin around down the cut last night with a bag of sprats lookin for a shag ...oops I mean comorant? ..:D

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Over here, when spring comes around, you see a lot of young guys in the parks shagging flies:eek: (Translation available on request).

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o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o

:eek:

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:D Canadians are weirdos!

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this may be true but a drunk Mancie is hilarious ;)

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never heard of the bloke..but he sounds like a safe geezer;)

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lol that he is :D;)

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Ain't that the truth ... shagged many a fly in my time .... it's easy, once you get used to the glove.:cool:

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Umm..I'd end it there Eric.. getting a bit to deep for my liking :eek:

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Eric, think you wasting your time with this :D....don't think "shagging a fly" is much used in/by the cricket community ;)

bit of a wander ....good one by the lads NL freeing the dolphins

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Newfoundlanders ... great people .... Newfoundland ... great province ... for people who travel,, it is a must on their itinerary ... I often have thoughts about selling up, and moving out there.

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seems the baby seals make good eating ...Surprising seal magret, avec cocoa sauce - The Appetizer ...
seems with a yearly cull of over 300,000 seal meat should be on menus everywhere, wonder if there is a market for the flippers as a 'cheapo' shark fin substitute in the chinese community :D

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You guys from over the pond are in danger of upsetting a lot of our wildlife lovers over here, it has an all different meaning to us than it does to you:rolleyes:

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Over the centuries you guys have almost denuded your country of wild life ... so when it comes to criticizing others, you guys don't have a leg to stand on. The annual seal hunt is necessary for many reasons; but it wouldn't have been necessary if the god damned Europeans hadn't overfished the Grand Banks ....:mad:

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Eric I wasn't criticising your lot at all mate, I was merely pointing out that over here people look a what goes on in other country's and pass judgement. As you are probably aware we have more than our fair share of tree huggers over here, that just don't understand the concept of real life necessities. I'm a great lover of nature, but would never think of pressing my thoughts on people who are directly effected by the over running of nature which interferes with their everyday lives

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Guess I over reacted ... sorry about that ... nothing personal intended .... but it does bug us over here when Paul McBeatle shows picutres of baby harp seals, and talks of boycotting Canadian products ... baby seals (and baby bears) are cute and cudly; but the adult harp seals, if unculled, could destroy a fishery already sorely hurt by overfishing. And the fishery is the livelihood of thousands of Nefoundlanders. An unculled seal population could eat so much fish, that subsequent generations of seals would suffer starvation, and die in much larger numbers than those our govt sets for the cull.

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Exactly my point Eric, that's why I never had an opinion about banning hunting the with dogs issue over here, you don't see too many Toffs (as Mancie calls um) riding though Hyndburn on horseback, chasing foxy woxy, but I have seen the carnage they leave in a hen house, and believe me its not nice, and insistently that carnage was in Ossy too, about the only time I've spewed my guts up when not ****ed, a bloody horrible site, and I mean bloody

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Eric..........I dont think the subject of livelyhood and fishing will go down well with the majority...........Fleetwood a fishing port, not too far from here are down to 8 inshore boats and 2 offshore trawlers...quotas from the EU restrict one boat to 500 Kilos of one species for one month.....this can be caught in one day....anything above that has to be dumped and cannot be landed.
You say thousands of Newfoundlanders are worried about their jobs... 50% of the boats in Fleetwood will be de-commisioned within twelve months....then there was five.
Dont believe all you read in the rags you support.

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Newfoundland was built on the Grand Banks fishing ... and the outports still live off it ... I remember Fleetwood, even Knot End. The fishing grounds have been screwed over by over fishing ... I remember reading that Cabot told Henry Vll that the cod on the Grand Banks were so numerous that one could walk on them. No more. However, we are now policing our territorial waters more rigourosly. We even built a new class of warship, the "Kingston Class", which is specifically designed as a coastal defence ship, and is often used to warn off foreign fishing vessels that come into our territorial waters.

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not only the Grand Banks being stripped bare , here in California the commercial Salmon season has been cancelled again for the second year , no fish returning to the spawning grounds .

apologies to original poster for thread wander but fish and cormorants do have a lot in common ;)

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In the premise that Cormorants eat Fish SJ:D

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I don't think that is a wander. This is a wander: "How 'bout them Jays, eh"! And even then, there is a link to cormorants ... if you spend a lot of your youth shagging flies, and you get good at it, you may end up in the majors making the big bucks;):D