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Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:10 am
by Made
Just to feel the rain..
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11:09

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:14 am
by Made
11:09 to sense the context outside the picture frame.. just a picture
11:09 cute

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:22 am
by Made
11:10 What was up with that water repellency?
11:11
11:12 juicy accent

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:28 am
by Made
11:13
11:13 wet and cold
11:16 the chickens can't wash themselves yet…

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:34 am
by Made
The detective series begins (she/he went stealing again and again)
13:16 In the circle on the left is a family of robbers. The starring one has just finished her shift and is looking for adventure. The nest in question is right behind those 3 dashing musketeers.
13:17 First, greens are brought to the nest, which are simply scattered everywhere on the ground.

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:49 am
by Made
After that, the cynical robbery of the nest began. The nest was defended only by the chicks (at least 5, but sometimes it seemed like there were 6 or 7 of them).
I didn't notice the parents coming to the chicks that day, I was worried they had died, but on Tuesday I saw one chick being fed.
The thief came about 15-20 times while the camera was in view. Brutally tore out materials from the nest, threatened the chicks. Even two neighbors tried to stop him. He carried the rob, the loot, even the smallest, to the nest so victoriously!
Here are just a some short episodes.
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Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:50 am
by Made
13:25

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:50 am
by Made
13:25

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 9:59 am
by Made
Family series
18:53 Safer to feed from a distance
18:54 the third one stands guard
18:55 yes, nest protection is a higher priority than feeding

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:02 am
by Made
18:55
Don't come any closer! Mom is protecting.
18:56 almost like a pyramidal monument

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:04 am
by Made
19:05 as in the painting "Portrait of a group of young ones"

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:38 am
by Made
Among the sea fish, the most popular are eelpout (viviparous blenny;
Zoarces viviparus (L.); emakala), [roundmouth gudgeon
?* round goby] – an invasive species, as well as Baltic herring (
Clupea harengus membras (L.); räim)
Source in Latvian
https://www.copeslietas.lv/site/zinas/2 ... zgajis.htm
* In Latvian "apaļmutes grundulis" was translated to English as roundmouth gudgeon, but in digital encyclopedia Latvian Nature there is no such species, in turn there is a "apaļais jūrasgrundulis" - round goby (Neogobius melanostomus Pallas; ümarmudil)
19:13 is it eelpout (viviparous blenny;
Zoarces viviparus (L.); emakala)?
19:13 there was 4 fishes, the little one didn't get any (yet

)
Then she picked up the fourth one that fell to the ground and ate it.
Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:46 am
by Made
19:22 clear
19:38 clear
20:04 not quite.. but it doesn't interfere with seeing the bright outlines of the chicks

oh, there is a lantern under the left nest

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:51 am
by Made
Now just a trip
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Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:51 am
by Made
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Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:54 am
by Made
20:43
20:43 nests so close to each other

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:57 am
by Made
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20:46

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:58 am
by Made
20:48
20:49

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 10:58 am
by Made
20:51
20:51

Re: Bird of the Year 2025: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Posted: June 4th, 2025, 11:03 am
by Made