Flight of the Cormorant

I went out to the Dutch Gap Conservation Area today to wander around, looking for a picture for today. I was spoiled for choice.

I was walking down to the imaginatively named Pond Dock #2 when this Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) decided it didn't like my presence and took off. I was able to get off a long series of shots, virtually all of which were just blurs. But my tracking held true just long enough for this one.

[amyK]

Nice in flight focus

[Elizabeth]

Fantastic shot. There is a flock of cormorants in a nearby pond and I’ve been trying to get a shot of one in flight. Haven’t succeeded...yet.

[Esther Rosenberg]

Nice shot. I tried yesterday as well, so hard to get, they are fast.