I was at the rookery in Gatorland last year in February. I watched a pair of Cormorants building a nest high in a tree. One was bringing sticks and twigs to the other on the nest. The one on the nest would carefully place the sticks/twigs while the other flew off to get another. The one doing the flying must have been going to the same place each time because the time when it would disappear and then appear with a stick was always the same. This image is from a return with the stick struggling to get up to the nest, definitely built for swimming and diving rather than flying. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, camera and lens supported by a monopod
1/2500 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +2/3 ISO 560 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 400mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation







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