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Colour bomb sunrise at Catherine Hill Bay, on the central coast of NSW, Australia.
Nikon D800 & Nikkor 16-35mm, Breakthrough 6 Stop filter. PP in PS CC using Nik Software and luminosity masks.
This part of the beach is only accessible when the tide is out. This tidal pool was dead calm even without the 4 sec exposure. You can see right over the Firth of Forth too. Lee 0.6 soft grad used.
This is my kind of photography, an image close to my heart. I don't think it has the 'punch' a lot of my other work does, but thats ok, because I much prefer this style of work, personally! I do love my other work, but this is more of an image true to myself than some of the others Ive produced. It was a beautiful evening :-)
Fantastical Landscape. Or imagine whatever you can to describe this stuff in my old favorite tiadal pool.
To see the whole, varied collection of my photos of this ever-changing tidal pool, visit my album, That Protean Tidal Pool: www.flickr.com/photos/jerry-rockport/albums/7217772030227...
As a result of this move running 20 minutes early, there was still one shadow across the track, and I have had to zoom in more than I wanted for this picture. GBRF's Biffa liveried 66783 'The Flying Dustman' is seen approaching Grovefield Way, Cheltenham with 4M54 0700 Cardiff Tidal sidings to Burton West Yard. 2nd April 2025.
Nikon D800 | Nikon 16-35mm f/4 | Singh-Ray Daryl Benson 4stops reverse GND | LEE 0.9 GND Soft
Taken at the southern end of Cathedral Rock, Kiama, NSW, Australia.
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The river Deben meets the North sea at Felixstowe ferry....A small boat ferries folk across river from here to Bawdsey...not just yet though.
Little Cormorant (Microcarbo niger) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. Slightly smaller than the Indian cormorant it lacks a peaked head and has a shorter beak. It is widely distributed across the Indian Subcontinent and extends east to Java, where it is sometimes called the Javanese cormorant. It forages singly or sometimes in loose groups in lowland freshwater bodies, including small ponds, large lakes, streams and sometimes coastal estuaries. Like other cormorants, it is often found perched on a waterside rock with its wings spread out after coming out of the water. The entire body is black in the breeding season but the plumage is brownish, and the throat has a small whitish patch in the non-breeding season. These birds breed gregariously in trees, often joining other waterbirds at heronries.
Description
The little cormorant is about 50 cm long and only slightly smaller than the Indian cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis). The Indian cormorant has a narrower and longer bill which ends in a prominent hook tip, blue iris and a more pointed head profile. The breeding adult bird has a glistening all black plumage with some white spots and filoplumes on the face. There is also a short crest on the back of the head. The eyes, gular skin and face are dark. In the non-breeding bird or juvenile, the plumage is brownish and the bill and gular skin can appear more fleshy. The crest becomes inconspicuous and a small and well-marked white patch on the throat is sometimes visible. Towards the west of the Indus River valley, its range can overlap with vagrant pygmy cormorants (Microcarbo pygmaeus), which can be difficult to differentiate in the field and are sometimes even considered conspecific. The sexes are indistinguishable in the field, but males tend to be larger. Some abnormal silvery-grey plumages have been described.
The species was described by Vieillot in 1817 as Hydrocorax niger. The genus Hydrocorax literally means water crow. It was later included with the other cormorants in the genus Phalacrocorax but some studies place the smaller "microcormorants" under the genus Microcarbo.
Distribution
The little cormorant is found across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and lowland Nepal. It is also found in parts of Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia. It is not found in the Himalayas, but vagrants have been seen in Ladakh. It inhabits wetlands, ranging from small village ponds to large lakes, and sometimes tidal estuaries.
Behaviour and ecology
Little cormorants tend to forage mainly in small loose groups and are often seen foraging alone. They swim underwater to capture their prey, mainly fish. A study in northern India found that the little cormorant fished in water which was less than a metre deep and captured fishes of about 2 - 8 cm length. They propel themselves underwater using their webbed feet. Captured fishes are often brought up to the surface to swallow them and during this time other birds including other little cormorants, painted storks, gulls and egrets may attempt to steal them. Indian cormorants tend to fish communally in larger groups. Like all other cormorants, they will emerge from water and will hold out their wings and stay immobile for a while. The behaviour has been suggested to be for wing-drying, but this interpretation is debated. A study in Sri Lanka found that the time spent with spread wings was always after they had spent some time underwater, and that the duration was related to time spent underwater and inversely related to the temperature and dryness of air. These observations support the theory that the studied behaviour aids drying of the wings.
The breeding season of the little cormorant is between July to September in Pakistan and northern India and November to February in southern India. In Sri Lanka it is December to May. A study in Bangladesh found them to breed from May to October. Males display at the nest site by fluttering their wings while holding their head back and bill raised. They then lower the bill, and after pairing the male also provides food to the female in courtship feeding. Both parents take part in building the nest, which is a platform of sticks placed on trees and sometimes even on coconut palms. They may nest beside Indian pond herons and little egrets in colonies. The nest is built in about two weeks. The whitish eggs turn muddy with age and incubation begins when the first egg is laid. This leads to asynchronous hatching and the chicks in a nest can vary considerably in age. The clutch size can vary from two to six eggs laid at intervals of about two days. The eggs hatch after 15 to 21 days. The downy chicks have a bare red head. The young birds are able to leave the nest after about a month.
Little cormorants are vocal near their nest and roosts where they produce low roaring sounds. They also produce grunts and groans, a low pitched ah-ah-ah and kok-kok-kok calls. They roost communally often in the company of other waterbirds.
Parasitic bird lice, Pectinopygus makundi, have been described from little cormorant hosts. Endoparasitic helminths, Hymenolepis childi and Dilepis lepidocolpos have been described from Sri Lankan birds while others like Neocotylotretus udaipurensis and Syncuaria buckleyi have been described from Indian birds.
Photo by Nick Dobbs, Koh Yao Yai, Thailand 28-12-2024
Tidal Zone, Second Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington
I was fortunate to have low tide the other evening at sunset allowing me to venture far out along the rocks to the tidal pools usually deep under water. I caught these starfish clinging on as waves constantly battered the rocks.
It's raining hard today, so I am planning on catching up on some processing and then working the rain forests when the weather chills out a bit.
Washington, DC
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Squantum section of Quincy (MA), this inlet is from the Neponset River near its mouth into Dorchester Bay.
The Dollart or Dollard is a bay in the Wadden Sea between the northern Netherlands and Germany, on the west side of the estuary of the Ems river. Most of it dries at low tide. Many water birds feed there.
Ein Priel ist ein natürlicher, oftmals mäandrierender Wasserlauf im Watt, in der Marsch und in Küstenüberflutungsmooren.
To see the whole, varied collection of my photos of this ever-changing tidal pool, visit my album, That Protean Tidal Pool: www.flickr.com/photos/jerry-rockport/albums/7217772030227...
St Brides Bay looks most placid as the tide begins to ebb.
Hand-held. AF.
Take a break at Pelcomb Portraits.