Sunday, September 23, 2012

Mr. and Mrs. Cormorant

CORMORANTS, NORTHUMBERLAND STRAIT, CANADA, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-DA 55-300 at 300mm
1/1600 sec. f11
ISO 1600

As the Northumberland Ferry chugged out of Caribou, Nova Scotia, bound for Woods Island on Prince Edward Island, it glided past this matched pair of cormorants perching on a buoy. Thousands of these homely seabirds clotted every horizontal surface around the ferry terminal. They may be ugly, but they are graceful and swift on the wing.

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