Flapping its wings

like crazy! I have never seen this behaviour before.

The cormorant was sitting in a tree and non stop[ flapping for a very long time. It got boring after a while, so I left.

Here one can clearly see the difference between the white breasted and reed cormorant.

The photos are not all that good as there was just too much movement.

[Chris Cook]

Excellent closeup

[Kathy A]

Looks like he's dancing

[Christina]

Wonderful shot!

[Cordiander]

Maybe he wanted to impress a lady :)

[Babs]

Maybe he just wanted to get your attention.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Super shot - I am with @onewing perhaps he needed attention !

[Dianne]

Wow - a terrific image.

[Casablanca]

This is glorious

[Susan Wakely]

A great capture.

[katy]

Very interesting activity captured beautifully in this photo. Is it possible he was trying to dry his wings?

[Mags]

Beautiful closeup and details!

[Paul J]

Nice closeup of this bird flapping it’s wings.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Awesome capture.

[Bucktree]

Beautiful closeup and capture of the interesting behavior.

[Olwynne]

Beautiful capture

[Christine Sztukowski]

Wonderful capture

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Could be a form of a mating dance. Either that or he had really wet wings and was drying them off!

[Carole Sandford]

Great shot!

[KV]

Nice close up.

[Renee Salamon]

Wonderful detail

[Rob Z]

I think they sometimes do that if they are very hot... Nice catch of him...

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Wonderful shot

[Heather]

A super capture, Diana! Great textures with the breast feathers! And I love the blur of the open wings- a great motion effect! Fav

[Paula Fontanini]

Magnificent capture! I love the sense of movement and the detail is insane!! :)

[Diana]

@cdcook48 @kjarn @christinav @cordulaamann @onewing @beryl @dide @casablanca @wakelys @grammyn @marlboromaam @marlboromaam @pej76 @mittens @dkellogg @ollyfran @365projectorgchristine @olivetreeann @carole_sandford @kvphoto @rensala @robz @elisasaeter @365projectorgheatherb @bluemoon Thanks for the wonderful comments and favs, they are very much appreciated :-)

[Diana]

@cordulaamann @onewing @beryl @grammyn @olivetreeann @robz I saw him a long way off as I was approaching the exit. Sitting on a big dead tree in the middle of nowhere, not even water anywhere. He looked like a lunatic, flapping and jumping around non stop. It went on forever, so I left ;-)

[Rick]

Great capture.

[haskar]

Greay shot and details.