Pygmy Cormorant
There’s a Pygmy Cormorant, Microcarbo pygmaeus, in the water. It looks as pleased to be here as we are.
![Pygmy Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rainbow-The-Hall-of-Einar-1344-725x483.jpg)
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:
![Pygmy Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rainbow-The-Hall-of-Einar-1415-725x483.jpg)
It has a brown head and deepest blue wing feathers:
![Pygmy Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rainbow-The-Hall-of-Einar-1417-725x483.jpg)
It doesn’t look very waterproof to me:
![Pygmy Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rainbow-The-Hall-of-Einar-1436.jpg)
But it does look as impressed as I am with the weather.
It shakes itself wildly.
![Pygmy Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rainbow-The-Hall-of-Einar-1487-725x483.jpg)
And then stands there, getting wet again.
![Pygmy Cormorant - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rainbow-The-Hall-of-Einar-1472-725x483.jpg)
As do we.