Success!

How successful are cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo?
Well, I'll tell you - very!

See it bigger with the fish in its beak

The word 'Cormorant comes from Old French cormareng, from corp raven, from Latin corvus + -mareng of the sea, from Latin mare sea.

I was watching a number of them on a lake at lunchtime, they were working in some type of pack, chasing the fish, in numbers and cornering them in the shallows, then diving and getting their fill.
Incredibly successful.
As I have said before, we have huge numbers here, them along with egrets and herons were all lined-up getting their crops filled, I counted 12 blue herons, at least 10 small egrets and 15 great white egrets on tis lake, which is the smallest one here - I can't see the small fish making it into the spring with all these hungry beaks to feed.
The sun came out, timidly, for about 3 nanoseconds, then went away again …

Anyway, there is always the log fire …

I hope your Tuesday is a good one.
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Cormorants in human culture

Cormorants feature quite commonly in heraldry and medieval ornamentation, usually in their "wing-drying" pose, which was seen as representing the Christian cross. For example, the Norwegian municipalities of Røst, Loppa and Skjervøy have cormorants in their coat-of-arms. The species depicted in heraldry is most likely to be the Great Cormorant, the most familiar species in Europe.
In the first speech of Love's Labour's Lost, King Ferdinand of Navarre says: "When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,/The endeavor of this present breath may buy/That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge/And make us heirs of all eternity."
In 1853, a woman wearing a dress made of cormorant feathers was found on San Nicolas Island, off the southern coast of California. She had sewn the feather dress together using whale sinews. She is known as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas and was later baptized "Juana Maria" (her original name is lost). The woman had lived alone on the island for 18 years before being rescued.
In addition to those mentioned above, the bird has inspired numerous writers, including Amy Clampitt, who wrote a poem called "The Cormorant in its Element." Which species she was referring to is not obvious, since all members of the family share the characteristic behavioural and morphological features that the poem celebrates. The combination of "slim head [...] vermilion-strapped" and "big black feet" perhaps points at the Pelagic Cormorant, which is the only species occurring in the temperate U.S. with these features.
The cormorant was the disguise used by Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost. The cormorant was significant as a symbol of "true Life/ Thereby regain’d," and was ironically used by Satan. Satan sat on top of the Tree of Life as a cormorant in his first attempt to deceive and tempt Eve.
A cormorant representing Blanche Ingram appears in the first of the fictional paintings by Jane in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre.
The mythical Liver Bird symbol of Liverpool is commonly thought to be a cross between an eagle and a cormorant.
The cormorant served as the hood ornament for the Packard automobile brand.

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