The Double-crested Cormorant is the most widespread of the cormorants, even appearing in inland waterways... like the Spokane River.
Our river is dammed to generate electric power, and the cormorants like to hang out near the buoys on the calm side. They're not breeding now, so no crests... just drab water birds hanging out in the sunshine.
Yesterday was actually a very good day to watch birds. There were the regulars at the pond, of course. But I also saw a group of Flickers hanging around the roof of a neighbor's house, a crow trying to pry the sensor off of a street lamp, Chinese geese hanging out at Riverside Park, the cormorants in the River and a Red-tailed Hawk soaring overhead.
Cormorant doodled from a photo at the Internet Bird Collection.
