It's Incubation Time

A Brandt's Cormorant in breeding colors incubating 4 eggs. He lifted himself a little revealing the eggs. The eggs are pale turquoise with small brown specks. There is a common murre partially visible in the photo. The cormorants and the murres are nesting on the same rocky hill that juts out into the ocean. It is a marine research reserve area.

Nikon P1000

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