Comorant fish catch

PushingTin · Nov 29, 2008

Taken with Nikon 300mm F4 + 2x TC
F8
ISO 1000
Handheld

LaFoto · Nov 29, 2008

This is so nice and it's shiny eye really shines! It looks green here, but usually I find (when I see them "in person", i.e. with my eyes) they are more blue. Does anyone know what colour cormorant eyes really are???

And isn't funny how this one seems to go under loaded with his heavy breakfast as he is?

So you took these after you had taken that photo of the morning moon?

PushingTin · Nov 29, 2008

No this pic I took today, the moon pic was from about a month back - just never got round to posting it

There eyes always seem greenish to me, I will look properly next time to make sure...

Thx for commenting

LaFoto · Nov 29, 2008

By the way, I sent my son a link to this very thread so he could look at this photo, too. He likes angling for his hobby, and therefore does not really too much like the cormorants, since anglers and cormorants are in "fierce competition". So I told him I'd send him a link to a photo of "his enemy at breakfast". He wrote back that despite any "enmity" between anglers and cormorants he thought this was "a very good photo", after all! So there! Another fan!

PushingTin · Nov 29, 2008

jv08 · Nov 29, 2008

Beautiful shot!

TwoRails · Nov 29, 2008

Nice shot! ...or shoud I say, nice catch!?!

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LaFoto said:
... Does anyone know what colour cormorant eyes really are???...

Looks like they are blue:

http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/wildlife/birds/cormorants.shtml

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Blue-eyed shags are characterized by a vivid blue eye color and an orange/yellow growth at the base of their beaks that becomes particularly large and bright during the breeding season. They have a white-breast, a black back and largely white cheeks and neck. The bill is dark brown and the feet pink.[/FONT]