My first thought for the theme of “Birds beginning with C” was cormorants. The photo below deserves to be pulled out of the gallery above, in part because it may need an explanation! In China, cormorants have been used for centuries to catch fish for humans. This photo gallery from The Guardian has some stunning photos of the men and the birds in action. In my photo, I suspect the man was parading these cormorants through a busy tourist area in search of people willing to pay for a photo.
Cormorants being carried – Yangshuo, China
I discovered I have photos of other C birds too, lurking in the archives.
Black cockatoo – Alice Springs, Australia
Canada Geese — Stratford, Canada
Pied currawong – Sydney, Australia
Condors – Colca Canyon, Peru
Birds beginning with “C” is the Bird Weekly theme.
Some incredible “C” birds. You could have pulled those Condors for last weeks challenge. LOL! I watched a documentary on PBS about the fishermen using the Cormorants to catch fish. I think they were in Vietnam or the Phillapeans. I thought it was pretty slick how they did that. I love all your birds this week! 🙂
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Thanks Lisa! The condors were actually my first thought for the long wings, but the photos are such poor quality I baulked at posting them. But they’re so cool that I thought I’d get them in anyway now.
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I hope to go see the condors here someday. They are in southern Arizona so it’s on the bucket list. I know I will be in awe! 🙂 I’m glad you posted it and wrote about it. We don’t judge quality at Bird Weekly.
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oh, good luck seeing them! (I judge my own quality because I dislike posting poor quality photos — but when it’s the only photo, and it’s a scan of a print of a photo taken with a not great camera 20 years ago, there are limited options.)
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I totally understand. I’m sometimes too critical of my own photos. I found taking a photo with my IPhone is sometimes better than what I used to get with a quality scanner. LOL! I have tons of photos that need converting to digital. 🙂
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All that scanning will be daunting, not to mention the editing of the scans. 😦
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Yeah, not sure if it will ever happen. When I retire, maybe! But when I retire, I may just give all the prints to the kids and let them worry about it because we plan on hitting the road. 🙂
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hah, that’s a much better plan!
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I can’t hardly wait! Ready to go now. 😎
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I agree, those Guardian photos are fabulous, Karen. The light is incredible 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
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I’d like to take photos like those Guardian ones, but there’s no way I’m spending thousands of dollars on that kind of camera and lenses! I’ll just put up with what I have.
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🤣🤣
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wow look at those condors..!!
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My poor photos don’t do them justice, alas. We got up pre dawn to go to the canyon; as the sun rose it created air thermals and the condors effortlessly rose and circled.
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Love those Condor shots!
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Thanks! Amazing birds to see.
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What a great collection of birds! It’s fun go back through old images and get a chance to relive the moments.
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You’re quite right! I may even dig out my South America journal and re-read the condor entry.
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