Showing posts with label Maplewood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maplewood. Show all posts

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Up Close and Personal

“Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,The middle tree and highest there that grew,  Sat like a cormorant.~ John Milton

I've never been this close to a cormorant, nor do I expect I ever will again. This was obviously a young one by the way it behaved. It was sitting on the guard rail in Maplewood Friday afternoon. It allowed me to get in quite a few good shots before it flew away. Oddly enough, as it flew off, we saw a crane, wings spread wide, also leaving the scene. Unfortunately,I was too slow for that shot.