A cormorant flying downward, wings wide-spread, to join a fellow cormorant already perched upon a fallen tree limb at the edge of a pond. Their shadows reflect a mirror-image below in the water.

by Joan U. Smeltzer

Digital photography

A flock of six cormorants were making a stopover in Arlington’s Spy Pond for a couple of weeks as they migrated south for the winter. They were quite social and seemed to favor perches near shore – but not too near…