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Down by the ferry yesterday, taken with my phone and already zoomed in. What are they discussing, with one cormorant perched high up and the others gathered around?
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I think the one was reciting poetry to the others. “There is no frigatebird like a book….”
;)
“hark to the whimper of the seagull
he weeps because he’s not an eagle
what if you were, you silly seagull
how would you explain it to your shegull?”
Lol – very, very good!
But knowing what bastards cormorants are, it’s more likely:
The Eagle, by Alfred Lord Cormorant
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in far off lands,
Ring’d by the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from the mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt, he farts.
oh, now I will have to think…. I call the local cormorants anhingas, and it turns out they are related to each other. It’s that slightly creepy neck and head out of the water looking like a snake thing.
really, though, your last line doesn’t rhyme.
Perhaps instead of “he farts”: “farts grand”.
Nitpicking a bird who’s learned to compose 9/10 of a poem with correct feet and meter is like criticising a dog who moves his lips when he reads. C’mon doc, have some perspective!
They have the advantage of webbed feet. Do they have nits? Poor things….
You’re the doctor. DO they have nits?
I took my insect class back in the early 1980s. I am sure they have SOME parasite or other. Where are my ornithologist friends? Nits: https://www.parents.com/kids/health/head-lice/what-nits-and-lice-look-like/
“They’re icky, yes.” says Dr. Mirmirani.
God, I hate when general population websites use technical jargon.
Different species than human ones, no doubt, since we don’t cuddle cormorants much. At least, I don’t….
I don’t either. That would be fowl.
“Can’t won’t shan’t don’t”
dangerspouse on cuddling cormorants.
Lol. Truer cormorant words were never spoken.
Or typed :)
ooo… here is a cormorant in a poem: http://www.quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2018/come.html
You know, with cormorants so integral to that one culture I’m not surprised they figure into tales and poems. Good catch (so to speak), Doc!
I went to China with my grandmother back in the 1980s and we went on that river in Guilin. We saw the cormorants with a ring around their neck, who brought fish back to the fishermen…
You did? I’m very envious! Good for you both :)
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Awww. I’m sure you do. I understand :)