Can anyone tell me what bird this is, please?

[Arterion]

Spotted in Oxford this morning:

Sorry for the quality, 10x mag on my phone!

 

[Sinbad2000]

Looks very cormorant-y ...

 

[Ayahuasca]

Cormorant

 

[Arterion]

I do believe you're both right, thank you so much!!

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

10x mag on my phone!

 

[Arterion]

Not sure I understand, sorry.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

An unfunny joke on my part. Glad you got your answer though

 

[Sinbad2000]

An unfunny joke on my part. Glad you got your answer though

 

[Diddums]

An unfunny joke on my part.

 

[Azza]

Blackbird.

 

[mrk]

Allow me to introduce you to the ABSOLUTE WITCHCRAFT that is Circle to Search, for future reference since you failed this time round

(click to play if it doesn't play inline)

Unless you have an iPhone in which case yeah maybe this explains that

 

[arknor]

2 of them keep going to my local park.
They used to sit on a floating log near the edge of the lake separated from the path by some bull rushes or whatever you call them.
Fishermen hate them and kept throwing stones and shouting at them.

They then moved onto a small island in the middle of the lake and mostly sit high up in a tree.
I've never witnessed them catch anything, some rando told one pulled a big carp out of the lake, but then a swarm of rats ran out the bushes and stole it.


One of the other parks has a Heron sometimes which is far cooler to look at because they are pretty big birds, it doesn't like people at all though and will fly off to the other side of the lake if someone gets within about 10ft

Cormorants seem to spend 99% of their time drying their wings

 

[jpaul]

well the google search (circle to search?) where you just paste the image - says a japanese cormorant ?

nice to have them locally though.

 

[Hades]

Allow me to introduce you to the ABSOLUTE WITCHCRAFT that is Circle to Search, for future reference since you failed this time round

(click to play if it doesn't play inline)

Unless you have an iPhone in which case yeah maybe this explains that

CSI Enhance!

 

[Blackjack Davy]

well the google search (circle to search?) where you just paste the image - says a japanese cormorant ?

nice to have them locally though.

Cormorants are found worldwide including the galapagos where they're famously flightless they look just like cormorants elsewhere but their wings feathers are reduced to mere tatters

 

[Electronic Dave]

Queen Hornet...oh sorry it's a bird

They were at the back of the queue when 'feather oil' was available - ran out...I have see them on the seafront drying their wings out from time to time

 

[Bluecube]

It might be a shag which is a wee bit smaller than a cormorant.

 

[Dis86]

It might be a shag which is a wee bit smaller than a cormorant.

Was going to post that I think it's a shag rather than cormorant.

 

[413x]

It might be a shag which is a wee bit smaller than a cormorant.

Pretty sure it's a cormorant not a shag.

 

[413x]

Was going to post that I think it's a shag rather than cormorant.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's definitely a cormorant.
Ita got a patch of white under it's bill. I don't think shags have that.

Also.. Much much more likely to see cormorants inland.
Never seen a shag in a park setting.

(many opportunities for innuendo!)