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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => Off Topic => Topic started by: Jim on January 18, 2021, 07:43:43 pm
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Great photos Jim.
Strange beasts are shags, we have black shags on the lake here and watching them feed on fish almost as big as themselves and slowly getting lower in the water as they become waterlogged, non waterproof , then perching, wings spread for an hour or so drying out.
I often see them when diving and they are really fast underwater and they have what looks like a coating of air bubbles on them that I 'think' must act in some way to make them more 'slippery' whilst under the water (and they go REALLY deep) there has to be some evolutionary benefit to not being water proof I think. They can hold their wings out for ages and ages to dry off.
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Great photos Jim.
Strange beasts are shags, we have black shags on the lake here and watching them feed on fish almost as big as themselves and slowly getting lower in the water as they become waterlogged, non waterproof , then perching, wings spread for an hour or so drying out.
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Australian pied cormorant and a Flounder.
It took awhile, but it managed to swallow it.
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One Australian pied cormorant and one nailed Flying gurnard
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