Sitting on a pylon; two cormorants!

I’ve seen crows, magpies rows of starlings but never a cormorant.

Pylon is at the side of the River Irwell in Kearsal, Salford.

Anyone else seen this or other unusual birds resting on a pylon?

two cormorants!

constitutes a flock! Open fire!!!!

They are getting more common inland.

You get quite a few cormorants at Ferry Meadows in Peterboghorror (in trees, not pylons).

A couple of years ago, I was in London with my parents having a mooch around & walking along the river near the London Eye there was a cormorant on a large wooden piling coming out of the water. Didn’t expect to see one there (again not a pylon, but a cormorant, nonetheless).

Someone was going to do it sooner or later.

They were inded TSY – and I’d rather it was you than anyone else!

Imagine if someone else had posted it… what would my role be… I’d be pointless…

Now fetch me my rifle, it’s hunting season and I want to unload my barrel.

Does make me wonder – I mean who at Shutterstock decided a photograph of an attractive 20something perched on a pylon would be in great demand?

I certainly hope they isolated and locked out the supply to that stage of power lines before shooting. Hrmph.

erggfhh..

Come down to the Exeter Canal.. once a beautiful haven for all species of coarse fish and containing some of the largest carp in the country..

Now a large barren puddle with a colony of at least 300 fat cormorants (educated guess) sitting on the pylons along it’s banks.. I’ve heard rumours that they eventually resorted to dying the once crystal clear water back to a filthy khaki to try and preserve fish stocks..

seen herons nesting on pylons in France

*resist urge to google ‘fat bird up a pole’*

At least it wasn’t loads of sparrows on a telephone line…………

Ok yunki, you hum it, I’ll play it.
There’s a pylon in a meadow alongside the Batheaston Bypass going into Bath, and there’s usually a whole bunch of cormorants perched on it in the evenings. They’ve got the whole of the River Avon to plunder, there’s often one hanging around the river behind Bath Spa station.

Driven inland by overfishing our local (Gailey) Trout fishery are not best pleased

as they’re better at fishing even without Rod,Reel and Day license 😆