Day 12.256: Peekaboo cormorants

Due to the fairies, we had to park a little further away from Strawbery Banke than usual and our short walk took us by South Mill Pond. Two things struck us about it, the first was the cormorants who were all doing this:

while swimming around. The second was that the water level seemed much lower than it would appear was the normal level (from exposed mud, location of vegetation etc.). We wondered if the strange behavior of the birds was caused by the low water level and whether the low water level was due to drought or something else.

As we returned several hours later, we saw water pouring into this part of the pool under the road bridge and realized that it is just a tidal pool.