Hi Liam brilliant video thanks for taking time out of your work to film this cormorant it’s a beautiful bird keep up with your brilliant work and videos Bernard

Thank you Liam. So happy that you got to see and photograph this lovely bird

Thank you for sharing this beautiful bird Liam … especially on your lunch break! 👍🏻

Well, that's a first for me. Never seen a white cormorant before. That's a great catch.

What an amazing sight. give your lungs a bit of a rest now though - no more dashing about for a while 😉 its great that you were able to have the chance to go find that wonderful cormorant on your break. excellent little video.

Brilliant Liam. It’s so special when you find something different. Well done buddy. Oh yes, what is your day job

I’m so jealous you were able to catch it on camera. I walk that stretch of river twice a day. I’ve only caught a fleeting glimpse of that bird a few times and never managed to take a single photo. Great work!

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. It was a lot of luck and a tip off definitely helped me out. It likes the perch where I filmed it apparently, so keep a close eye there if you are passing by. Good luck!

Fantastic stuff ! It's always great to see something rare like this. You must have been super excited ?

i instantly thought it was a cormorant

I have to say that this was one of my favorite videos. Kind of the spare of the moment, go get the video, type of thing. Also, as for your last video I was thinking, I know you’re the bird guy usually, but it would be really interesting if you did a video about the dragonfly. They are just so amazing. Anyway, thanks I really enjoyed this video, not about people just about the birds. Thanks!

Well, I hope this lovely bird does survive to breed. It looks very beautiful.

"Not my house" LOL. Thanks for clarifying that, Liam ;-)

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Haha, well I edited the video together and realised the cathedral came into view just as I said "within walking distance of my house". The effort it took to add those words, glad it was worth it.

Love the video, well done on getting there so fast too. I think I once saw a bird like that near the Adam & Eve car park years ago, maybe the family of that bird like the area. Nice to think there's so many unique and special sights in our local area.

Great coverage at last Liam the bird waited for you .. . Nice bird ..

Awesome spot & video. I reckon he should catch food OK. Seagulls are white and they do alright 😁👍I guess looking from below the water and up, then white colour might actually be an advantage…. Possibly!🥴

Brilliant find and just a few minutesfro. Where I work. Amazing. Thank you for sharing

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, you should keep an eye out for it. Apparently it likes that branch so if you recognise where I was stood its worth a look. Cheers!

Great way to spend a lunch break❤

I wouldn't put it past Liam to find a dodo on his lunchbreak.

I was fishing once as a kid in around 1986 up here on the shores of Morecambe bay,and i swear i closely saw a Pink coloured Knott flying in amongst his more regular coloured flockmates as they swept by?wish id had a camera on me....noone believes it....i know what i saw!🤔🙈🤯😉🇬🇧🎣🤩😁👍

NICE! Several years ago, I saw the famous leucistic Red Kite at Gigrin Farm, and I later found a news clipping completely by mistake saying there was a second one in South Shropshire. I was lucky enough to get a shot of the one at Gigrin Farm alongside a regular one, which I jokingly dubbed as a 'shiny' Red Kite with the standard variant. The only other bird I saw was a partially albino blackbird on my way to work one day, completely unafraid of me; I was within 3 feet of it easily.

Good work, Liam. Never heard of a leucistic cormorant but realised straight away that's what it is. We've got one or two leucistic jackdaws in the local royal park and a few years back had an albino robin in the garden for one season. Possibly got predated as it was so easy to spot.

That’s one special cormorant. Great video Liam.

Glad me and suzy told you about it. As your the wildlife man with camera videos. There again yesterday in tree after it was fishing jarrold bridge.

@AShotOfWildlife

2 ай бұрын

Cheers Adam! I have moved out of the city now but I will take a look for it next time I am in the area.

wow thats one for the books! we had a city avery, but in the 90's they closed it. about 70% of the birds were rehomed some put down and the keeper let some of those loose. we had white blackbirds, for two decades there were blackbirds with varing degrees of white featers in our parks, havent seen one of these pieballed blackbirds for 6 or 7 yrs now

Awesome, well captured.

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great video Liam. I was lucky to see this from the same bridge yesterday.

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Great, I'm glad it's still about!

Great video yet again! I’ve walked that towpath many times! Small world 😊

You must almost be a neighbour! Love your channel.

What a gorgeous bird! It looks like a sculpture 😍

I once saw a Green Heron after a massive storm. In the West of Ireland. Poor lad, I hope he lives happily and solitarily..

This is do beautiful

What a brilliant sight

I love how you where in a rush, but still had time to set cameras on the ground to get the walking shot.😂

Been waiting for this video since you posted the photo. What a stunning bird

nice never seen one of those.

😊 Congratulations !

Not only was it your lucky day Liam , it's our lucky as well, thanks for the great video & a special thanks to the Cormorant. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

I agree, special thanks to the cormorant for staying still long enough for me to film it so much. Thanks for watching and i'll see you next time :)

Thanks for sharing. Good footage. 👍

😊 seeing that. Very interesting

1:18 I looked at the picture before I started watching this and I said that looks like a white cormorant. I’ve seen black ones a number of times before but never knew there were different types 🤔

So beautiful ! 💕✨

Wonderful bird. I have learnt so much about different species of birds from your video. Don't know where you work but it looks like a lovely area❤

Amazing, I've never seen a cormorant like this, what a great piece of filming. I've seen a couple of black cormorants near the river where I am, they are all beautiful birds. Thanks Liam, that was great 🐦‍⬛.

I remember seeing a completely white crow at Avebury stone circle....Very strange.

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

That is interesting, I am thinking of going looking for strangely coloured birds as a series. It would be good to be able to find a white crow.

That's dedication! Lunchtime filming, I mean. I've not seen one of these, but as it goes, I did see a black cormorant this very day, when I was at work, and I saw it take a fish too.. Nice one Liam. ⭐👍

Ive seen a lkt of black ones on west coast of Scotland but never seen one of these ones 👍good video 👍

Oh wow, This might explain what I saw there while visiting a month ago (assuming it's Norwich). I was having a beer by the river and it flew past me quick and low over the water. I remember it was large, white but with patches of yellow around it's head. Mystery solved.

@AShotOfWildlife

8 ай бұрын

Yes, this will probably be the bird. If you were at the Red lion or the complete angler then almost definitely. Mystery solved.

@orangeedo

8 ай бұрын

@@AShotOfWildlife I was at the "Ribs of Beef" pub, close enough I reckon. I love a coincidence like this, thanks.

Thank you :)

this video really cheered me up today! thankyou

Well spotted.

Wow great catch

What an amazing find, it's a beautiful bird. I hope it's left in peace !

Another super video.

lovely lovely channel

Great video!

Seen almost all of your videos but clicked this one immediately, based on the thumbnail, specifically to comment "(Partially) Leucistic Cormorant? NICE)

@benwright4797

7 ай бұрын

One of these days you'll have to let me show you around some of the reserves and spots in Nottinghamshire, plenty for you up here mate :)

It may be more successful at hunting than the black version given that when looking up at it from below it should have a less noticeable silhouette (like a great white shark).

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Perhaps, they don't usually dive out of the sky like some birds do, instead diving from.the surface and swimming after fish. I would guess it will depend on the clarity of the water.

@assymcgee7217

7 ай бұрын

@@AShotOfWildlife the juveniles look cool before they get their adult plumage, I had one waddle up to me on the rocks when out fishing one day & fed it a bit of squid. I wonder what the one you were lucky enough to see looked like as a youngster.

👏👍👌🥰

Not that rare, if you ask any fisherman 😅 they hate them, with a huge H 😅 but they are normally black, so that is a different find 😁 Cormorant is the name of the bird 😊 very beautiful and photogenic bird! Especially when they dry their wings 😊

Amazing! There's a Canada goose at my local lake that's a different colour to all the others. Not sure if it's the same condition

@doubles6508

8 ай бұрын

@@Thiscommentwillselfdestruct maybe it was that. This was grey where it should have been black and it's legs are a different colour aswell

Amazing video can you tell me if a birds returns to a bird box after nesting and baby's have gone i can't go out very much but I have had few boxes put up so I can watch wild life from my bedroom window have a good day from Wales

I didn't know cormorants could perch in trees.

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Yes, they dont look the most suited to it and this one was struggling when the wind blew but hanging in there.

@relicthominoid

7 ай бұрын

They're actually perfectly fine perching on such structures, some species nest in trees, especially the continental (eurasian) great cormorant (P. carbo sinensis), Atlantic carbo carbo can nest in trees too, and perhaps historically did so much more often, now it's mostly in mixed colonies with sinensis from what I understand.

Is there any difference between cormorant and a shag, or are they the same species?

@relicthominoid

7 ай бұрын

If you're from the UK, they're two different species of cormorant, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) and the european shag (Gulosus aristotelis). The great cormorant is larger, stockier and much more versatile - being able to live in both marine and inland environments, while the shag is a marine specialist with a more feathered face and gracile build. In Australia/NZ it gets more complicated as explorers brought the two words but asigned them interchangeably between not-so-related species of cormorants, even calling the great cormorant (same species as in the UK, just a different subspecies) the black *shag* etc.

Seen this today near Cow Tower

@WrecksReefsWildlife

5 ай бұрын

Infact it looks like it was even on the same branch!

WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT BRIDGE CAMERA IS THAT 1INCH SENSOR ON SONY RX10??

@AShotOfWildlife

6 ай бұрын

It's a nikon p950. It's a very impressive yet inexpensive camera that is versatile enough for anything I want to film.

@cityproofdad

6 ай бұрын

Great piece of kit i thought it may be one of these super zooms ive always wanted one of these how is the stabilization on in?

@AShotOfWildlife

6 ай бұрын

@cityproofdad it's really good. At full zoom it's a bit wobbly if there's too much wins, but I have filmed hand held at maximum range.

I didn't know the difference between leucistic and albino, and thought until today that the white deer with blue eyes I spotted in a forest was albino. I hope only photographers will shoot it.

Well done Liam! You give us chance to see wildlife most of us never see.

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm happy to help.

Did a double take, rewind and then laugh at "not my house". Never seen a leucistic shag/cormorant here. Best i saw was a blackbird and so brief no photo evidence.

You didn't mention where it was spotted

@AShotOfWildlife

5 ай бұрын

I think I did, along the river in norwich :)

Jammy.

cormorants are often seen as pests in various parts of the world due to their highly acidic droppings which can corrode limestone structures and cars if theres a large amount of it

Not the best looking bird but nice work anyway