Cormorants in the city centre
In the centre of Bristol, just next to Prince Street Bridge, is a small group of Common Cormorants.
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They have been fishing and are hanging around getting dry in the sunshine of a November day:
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Their bronze feathers look beautiful in the low light:
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They spend an age preening and spreading oil on their feathers.
That’s a pretty hard thing to do when you have no hands.