Veteran Wotsiters and Loch Ness students Con, Mark and Philip correctly inferred a cormorant. In this case it was a Little Black.
Many of you will have noticed that my offered Wednesday wingtip (over cow paddocks, JWNR) belonged to a harrier, Swamp, male, pale variety. This lacked the contrasting dark tips of a Little Eagle. It is also a more rangy bird. To borrow,
more or less, a line from the Australian carol ‘Christmas where the Gum Trees Grow’ –
Long wings the harr-ee-er has got,
Neat and chunky is what it’s not.
