[EBB Sightings] I only notice large, brightly colored, slow-moving birds

I was out cycling at the Aquatic Park in Berkeley on Sunday and stopped to watch a napping Double Crested Cormorant.  He stirred from his snooze, and yawned hugely.  Until yesterday, I did not know that the inside of a cormorant's mouth was BRIGHT BLUE!

Photo at my blog:

http://howsrobb.blogspot.com/2009/05/post-holiday-blues.html

There must have been thirty other cormorants swimming in a group in the middle of the water.  At any moment, at least five of these would be splashing around wildly, as if they were songbirds in a suburban bird-bath.  

All very entertaining, if not very exotic.

Lisa Lazar
Oakland