Wife was driving me around the pond today, and what did we see? A cormorant! I didn’t think we had them in Missouri. I’ve seen lots of posts here about them, and if I remember right, none of the posts were particularly positive about having a cormorant around. He had been sitting on our overflow drain pipe for quite a while. As the pipe had about 1/4” of my processed fish all over it. I talked things over with this cormorant, and he decided to depart. Then I googled him in Missouri and sure enough they must be fairly common. I’m hoping we don’t see any others. I always thought they were just a problem down south. No pictures. I’ll add that apparently cormorants are an ancient bird. My take is that their brains don’t appear to have evolved very far. Not the smartest bird we’ve ever had visiting.
9 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these. I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023
