Bird ID please..?

[carl.w]

Terrible pic i know but on a wander round hollingworth lake at weekend and quickly grabbed a pic of this bird before he took off, first glance from a distance i thought it was a heron given the size of it but upon second look i realised it was black and im not well up on the birds....:bonk:

 

[pikingpirate]

cormorant pal
atb ian

 

[LindaB]

Its a Cormorant

Nice, and typical shot of it with its wings open like that - love seeing a group of them together doing it lol.

Linda

 

[BigBudgie]

A Cormorant, definitely.
Very unpopular along the stretch of the Thames where I live as they have decimated certain parts of the river of fish stock.

 

[spiritsfree]

 

[Deleted member 11790]

def cormorant