Pygmy Cormorant

There’s a Pygmy Cormorant, Microcarbo pygmaeus, in the water. It looks as pleased to be here as we are.

The light is poor, so I’m using a longer exposure and hoping there’s not too much movement by the bird and plenty of movement in the water. It pops up onto a log in front of us:

It has a brown head and deepest blue wing feathers:

It doesn’t look very waterproof to me:

But it does look as impressed as I am with the weather.

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It shakes itself wildly.

And then stands there, getting wet again.

As do we.