Michael Townsend 3
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Whilst walking over the fields and golf course near to my house, I have seen a few cormorants around the same area, next to a drain.
This drain is almost devoid of fish (cormorants ate them all) as is the River Torne that is 100 yards away (cormorants ate all them too) So I wondered what they were up to, as the close by ponds are iced over.
On the 3rd day, curiosity got the better of me as I scared them off again, so I walked over the field for a look. I was suprised to see that they had been feasting on apples and bananas. These have obviously been left there by humans, presumably for the horses or the many deer that are around this area (I saw 5 yesterday) To top that off, when I woke this morning, a cormorant flew straight over my house, quite low to the ground. It was heading towards the centre of the village where there are no lakes, rivers etc.
Are cormorants taking to scavenging to survive because they are eating most of the small fish? Will they become a super breed, almost half cormorant, half seagull / crow etc?
This drain is almost devoid of fish (cormorants ate them all) as is the River Torne that is 100 yards away (cormorants ate all them too) So I wondered what they were up to, as the close by ponds are iced over.
On the 3rd day, curiosity got the better of me as I scared them off again, so I walked over the field for a look. I was suprised to see that they had been feasting on apples and bananas. These have obviously been left there by humans, presumably for the horses or the many deer that are around this area (I saw 5 yesterday) To top that off, when I woke this morning, a cormorant flew straight over my house, quite low to the ground. It was heading towards the centre of the village where there are no lakes, rivers etc.
Are cormorants taking to scavenging to survive because they are eating most of the small fish? Will they become a super breed, almost half cormorant, half seagull / crow etc?