To be completely creeped out by Cormorants

[LadyFlumpalot]

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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...?

Bollock Bird!!

I always assumed that the workers had become cormorants as well...thats why they scare the be-jeezus out of me. Not so much Shags . I think thats because cormorants are usually pure black.

Agree with crows and ravens. And, on a non-feathery tangent, hares. Creepy mofo's.

The bollock bird has cheered me up though Chickens. I shall endeavour to think of bollocks everytime I see a cormorant!

Absolutely adore that owl though!

YANBU I feel the same about herons. We have loads near work and they just stand there all rigid just waiting for the right moment to peck your eyes out!

YABU and I quite like that turkey owl too. Although the music woke the baby up

What the fuck is a Shag? (other than the sort I know)

I shared the Owl on my faceybooky, thems loves it.

Why that had to be so aggressive, I'm not sure.

A shag is very like a cormorant, but slightly smaller and very dark green.

I hate birds full stop.
Too prehistoric. And after reading DAphne DuMaurier's story "the birds"........
Regarding shags, my dad was a teacher in a boys secondary in the 1950's and one of the books they would use in English was called "shag the Caribou".
It caused endless hilarity in the staffroom.

Birds, not too bothered.

Cows on the other hand, scary. Very scary.

I also have a phobia of goats, after being bitten as a child by one stealing my lovingly held bag of goat feed....took a mates DS to the farm once and the exact same thing happened. Good job I was holding the bag of food ... Except that it retraumatised me. Mate's DS thought my screaming was hilarious...

Inflames I share your goat pain. I was butted by one as a child. All I remember is a pain in my tummy whilst flying backwards through the air.

I also don't like horses, they are too big and toothy.

Do you know what animal really freaks me out? This.

Actually, most of the animals that freak me out resemble male genitals. I should probably think about that.

There is a reason they're associated with satanism

Cormorants are a bit sinister but that's why I like them. They look all dinosaur-ish. There was a drama with a cormorant in it on TV ages ago. Called The Cormorant, funnily enough. At the bottom here:

www.memorabletv.com/bfc6.htm

Anyone else remember it?

The common cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag
The reason you will see, no doubt,
It is to keep the lightning out.
But what these unobservant birds
Have never noticed, is that herds
Of wandering bears may come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.

I am vey fond of cormorants; DH gave me this carving for my birthday a few years ago and I love it. Not quite as much as this year's present, which was a trip to see David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing, but still pretty good

Ah, Rusty you beat me to it.

I love them, particularly the ones that warm their feet on the streetlamps along the M4 near Port Talbot. You can't be creeped out for long by something in need of a hot water bottle....