{"id":1884,"date":"2025-06-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:49:05","slug":"great-cormorants-visit-oak-street-wetlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/2025\/06\/06\/great-cormorants-visit-oak-street-wetlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Cormorants visit Oak Street Wetland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Cormorant [Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f\/6.3 VR S @ 1\/500s f\/6.3\u00a0ISO<\/em>1600]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Great Cormorant [Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f\/6.3 VR S @ 1\/500s f\/6.3\u00a0ISO<\/em>1600]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Great Cormorant [Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f\/6.3 VR S @ 1\/500s f\/6.3\u00a0ISO<\/em>1400]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

We have not observed any Great Cormorants at the Oak Street Wetlands for some time. On 10 May 2025, a couple of Great Cormorants decided to make that trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the sun was still low in the horizon, the light was subdue. I set the shutter speed to a fairly low 1\/500s. I wasn’t anticipating action shots. However, when one of the Cormorants started to dry its wing by flapping them, I forgotten that I had a low shutter speed and starting taking a series of photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resulting photographs aren’t terribly sharp. Most of them were deleted as a result. These 3 photographs depicted here of the various wing positions were of acceptable quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2 Cormorants didn’t stay long at Oak Street Wetland. It seems to have departed sometime in that morning. We were the only ones who have seen it that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As winter approaches, we are seeing less and less of the more common cormorants as well – the Little Pied Cormorants and Little Black Cormorants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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