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" 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...?

It's a bird...YABU

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

Because that freaks me out.

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

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

That owl is IMMENSE...I love owls

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!

LadyFlumpalot

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

i'm rather fond of shags

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Thats one freakily hilarious Owl! What kind is it?

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