Baldwin's Birds

I am writing this on a somewhat dismal day, but I hope that it isn't enough to dampen your spirits! Mine were certainly buoyed up yesterday when visiting some friends at their lakeside cottage and got a chance to go for a boat ride and also enjoy the woods surrounding the lake. What a beautiful sunny day, with lots of boat activity going on for us to see and enjoy, as we too took a water-borne tour, to see things for ourselves, such as some of the birds that were not being disturbed with all the somewhat noisy action!

Meandering through the water and around the smaller islands, we came across one which housed a small Cormorant colony and a number of them were sitting up in the pine trees observing the surrounding scenery, with their black feathering and distinctive beaks being silhouetted in the bright sunlight, making photography a bit awkward.