Cormorant Take off

[Chocky]

It takes quite some thing for this bird to take off. I watched it , it starts with flapping it's wings then sort of skips across the water before it becomes air born.
They are not fantastic photos because it he bird was far out but I thought the sequence would be nice for any one who hasn't seen t before

[rolf]

That looks like hard work Chocky. I guess they struggle because they are a diving bird and do not have huge wings.

[Chocky]

Yes. they usually take off from a landing of some sort. It really was quite and effort. I have seen it before but never captured it.
Swamd do to they seam to run across the water