To be completely creeped out by Cormorants

[LadyFlumpalot]

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/birds/great-cormorant-575.jpg&imgrefurl=www.naturephoto-cz.com/great-cormorant:phalacrocorax-carbo-photo-15.html&h=410&w=600&sz=50&tbnid=izhq5xzYd7CLtM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=132&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcormorant%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=cormorant&docid=JkDWJuCTOFsprM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=66VLTob7E8Or8QON_anUCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CFMQ9QEwBg&dur=2626" rel="nofollow noindex" target="_blank">These things.

I read a story years ago about a lighthouse that was manned by a crew of three. After the 3 month shift was over the next crew rowed out to relieve them. They found the lighthouse empty - Marie Celeste empty. Half eaten meals and papers half finished. No signs of a struggle. There were however 3 hulking great cormorants hanging about.

The crew reported it and settled in for their shift...

3 months later the next crew rowed out - and found the lighthouse empty. They looked around but apart from the signs that everyone had left in the hurry the only other unusual thing they saw was 6 great black cormorants eyeing them up...

Ever since I read this I cannot stand cormaorants, they do just look too human! Please tell me I am not BU and other people find them creepy too...?

[HairyGrotter]

It's a bird...YABU

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

They don't disturb me overly....but have you seen the

Because that freaks me out.

[AuntieMonica]

[LadyFlumpalot]

Chickens - That has got to be the scariest (yet weirdly funny) bird I have ever seen.

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

Isn't it sinister? Imagine you were walking through the woods, and see a pretty owl....and then it goes all demon owl on your arse

[HairyGrotter]

That owl is IMMENSE...I love owls

[LadyFlumpalot]

MNHQ - Please please please can you change the title of this thread to include "and the Transforming Owl"?

Thank you in advance you lovely lovely bunch of ladies!

[AuntieMonica]

LadyFlumpalot


YANBU to be creeped out by cormorants. not at all. i am creeped out by crows/ravens/rooks too.

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=ugly+bird&hl=en&sa=X&tbm=isch&tbnid=LWdjaScLQFIoVM:&imgrefurl=www.strangezoo.com/content/item/122497.html&docid=q6wBxJDMS9ZwcM&w=500&h=695&ei=D6pLTobyMdOp8QOR2sXSCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=311&vpy=219&dur=202&hovh=265&hovw=190&tx=109&ty=114&page=4&tbnh=161&tbnw=102&start=57&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:57&biw=1366&bih=643" rel="nofollow noindex" target="_blank">This bird looks like an actual bollock

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

[MissPenteuth]

I'm not creeped out by cormorants. But I am peculiarly perturbed by pelicans.

That transforming owl reminds me of the dinosaurs that ruffle up their neck-folds and spit deadly black goo in Jurassic Park.

[LadyFlumpalot]

To be fair chickens - really, what more is there to say? Transforming owls and baldy bollock birds...

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

But do you feel better about the cormorants, Lady? At least they don't look like flying genitals.

[RevoltingPeasant]

YABU I love cormorants. Get them regularly here (darkest coastal Devon). Shags on the other hand have really furious faces.....

[ClaireDeLoon]

If you're creeped out by Cormorants how do you feel about Shags?

[AuntieMonica]

i'm rather fond of shags

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

[YouDoTheMath]

I get what you mean about the cormorants. They hang out at a particular part of the Thames that I frequent, perched on this island in the middle of the river flapping their wings for no apparent reason [shudder]

Chickens that thing is frickin' scary.

For the record I am mostly scared of turkeys.

Any bird that's smaller than a human being but isn't scared enough not to give chase is DANGEROUS.

[Sandalwood]

A cormorant did scare me once. I was sitting on a peaceful riverbank and one burst out of the water just 3 or 4 feet away from me - and it screamed at me as much as I was screaming at it.

[ClaireDeLoon]

I think they're a bit prehistoric looking, especially when they hold their wings out and just sit like that.

[southeastastra]

ooh i remember the lighthouse story! i thought the answer was that they all went out in a storm and all got washed out to sea.

[ChickensHaveNoEyebrows]

I thought the lighthouse story was implying that the workers became cormorants

[ClaireDeLoon]

I assumed they'd all become Cormorants too. Bewitched by some evil Cormorant Fairy.

[LittleWhiteWolf]

Thats one freakily hilarious Owl! What kind is it?

[AuntieMonica]

that's what i thought too, that the cormorants had taken over the lighthouse keeper's soul...mwoahahahaaa!

that's why i hate crows tho, devil's bird and all that gubbins