Cormorant nests, July 28th

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

During my gull survey on Sunday I made another detour to visit the cormorants under the Granville Street Bridge.

This time I sat myself down and tried to take in the whole scene, paying attention to the comings and goings, to juveniles begging for food and awkwardly testing out their wings as they side-stepped along the steel girders. There were many active nests, and some that had served their purpose and were now apparently empty.

Here’s a few photos…

Juvenile Peleagic Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant nests

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

While doing some searching about bridge-nesting cormorants, I happened across Geezer’s Blind, a guy who documented some of the nests under the Granville Street Bridge back in 2015-2017.

A few weeks back, I caught at least half-a-dozen Pelagic Cormorants gleaning vegetation from rooftops by the Granville Street Bridge. I knew they were nesting under there, but only after visiting the above blog did I realize that I could obviously see them from Granville Island.

So last Sunday I took a detour from my regular gull nest route and got my first glimpse of the nests. I spotted approximately ten nests, but there are certainly more – to my uninitiated eye I don’t quite know how to look at the scene.

Pelagic Cormorant on nest

Nests on

Cormorant nests, July 28th

Juvenile Peleagic Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant nests