In the foreground nest, incubation happening. No action. In the background nest, adult mom in the company of her two fledging youngsters is relieved by incoming dad. He lands behind her, from camera POV. What struck m e about this sequence of video is the good fortune of these young cormorants to be fed by both parents before the mother departs (4:03 min). She will have been with them for awhile, and would have previously given access to her throat sleeve. Yet she seems to come up with something. Not all cormorant parents I have recorded on video have been so forthcoming as these two.
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