Before you even look at these photo’s I am sorry for the quality.. the pictures were taken from inside the house and most were quite far across the pond and so the quality isn’t as good as normal..
Anyway..
I looked out the other day, and what to my surprise, eight tiny reindeer.. oh wait. wrong story.. there was, what I first thought was a young Anhinga.. but it turned out to be (same family) Cormorants.
(Anhingas are a tad larger, and have straight beaks.. not the shorter and hooked end to the Cormorants.)
.. and there were TWO of them! (look at that snooty attitude! lol)
If I weren’t so far away and IN my apt I would say the one looked to be sure someone was taking pictures!
..and yes.. like the Anhinga they swim and eat underwater!
Seeing the two together was thrilling!.. until I remembered the gator’s. :o(
They are too small to try to eat these birds yet.. but they could do damage to their very large webbed feet if they wanted to.
After checking out the entire pond they both took off.. I managed to get a shot of one as he ran on top of the water!
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