High-key birds

[Len Philpot]

It's been rainy for the last few days and I'm getting a bit bored sitting inside. I found a couple of (I believe) cormorants in a tree over a low lake. The nearly-featureless overcast sky made for an atypical (for me) high key shot, at least to a degree. I'm not a birder nor bird photographer and 200mm even on a crop sensor only goes so far. I looked at processing this in B&W but I like the minor areas of color here and there.



Here's a committee meeting of the Louisiana Association of Vultures (not to be confused with very similar groups in state government, but I digress...).

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Your cormorant shot is beautiful Len! I believe they are immature "neotropic cormorants" which seem to reside in your neck of the woods. They are the smallest of the three types of cormorant.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Really nice, and I like the colours of the first one (not to mention the position and attitude of the two birds).

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Your cormorant shot is beautiful Len! I believe they are immature "neotropic cormorants" which seem to reside in your neck of the woods. They are the smallest of the three types of cormorant.

They don't have the beak of cormorants, I think they are anhingas, snakebirds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga).

 

[Len Philpot]

We supposedly have double-crested cormorants, neotropic cormorants and anhingas in our area (per the mighty Google). So far I've heard them called all three -- I think I'll just stick with "birds" LOL

 

[Brian Moore]

I think the choice of color in the first image was a good one; it helps you see how the birds blend in with their environment.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

They don't have the beak of cormorants, I think they are anhingas

On second thought, perhaps you're right Gianluca! The beak tip would be a give away. I think I was distracted by the color. We have a lot of cormorants here and I don't think I've ever seen an anhinga.