Can anyone identify this bird please?

Took this shot this morning by the River Dee with the Bigma hand held at 500mm wide open. These birds are always found in the morning by the 'Handbridge' Wier. Would love to know what they are!

It is a cormorant.

It looks like a cormorant to me.

Some type of Cormorant.

No idea but very nice shot.

Aye - it looks like a cormorant from that link Gwyn, thanks guys.

My knowledge of birds is quite pathetic I have to admit. Only last month taking a shot of a Peregrine Falcon and thinking it was a buzzard!!!

Something I must remedy.

Nah, it's a budgie... We used to have one called Joey. We had to get rid of it tho', because it kept eating the goldfish.

It's one with feathers.

There is a chance it could be a Shag as they are very similar to Cormorants, and you got this pic in Scotland where most of the UK population have their nesting places.

I think the white throat of your bird makes it a Cormorant though, but Juvenile Shags have this too.

My guess is . . . . "I can't say for sure". Dan will be along in a mo to put us all out of our misery.

Shags don't have white faces like cormorants do.

I was editing my post at the same time as yours Gwyn, I think you identified it correctly in the first place.

AS you say I'm sure Dan will be along to put us all right.

I do like cormorants though - one of my favourite birds. They look so pre-historic.
We saw lots of Pelagic Cormorants in the US last year. Just sitting chilling on any buoy or rock they could find, and in a huge "rookery" off shore together with Murres (guillemots) and tufted puffins.

The Great Black Cormorant - the one in the UK is known as a Black Shag in New Zealand.

You Plonker Mowog, the pet shop palmed you off with a Heron

And yes it looks like a Cormorant to me too.

Very nice, I wish I could hold my Bigma as steady for such a long exposure.

Greg