Pelagic Cormorants and Pigeon Guillemots are feeding chicks now, as photographed by Rozanne Rapozo and Michael Reinhart.

Pelagic Cormorants attache their nests to bluff faces, using their own guano as glue. Rozanne Rapozo recently photographed several nests.

Michael Reinhart found Pigeon Guillemots. They use openings in rocks for their hidden nests, much safer than the Pelagic Cormorant nests. This is a rather rare photo of a chick being fed.

Here are two Pigeon Guillemots on the water. It looks like they are talking to each other. Note the orange-red mouth!

Pelagic Cormorants are mostly silent, but Pigeon Guillemots have a whistling call that  you can hear on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at this link: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pigeon_Guillemot/sounds

Thanks to Rozanne and Michael for allowing me to share their photos with you here.

It was very foggy this morning, with the sun finally breaking through mid-afternoon, a lovely cool day on the Mendonoma Coast!

2 thoughts on “Pelagic Cormorants and Pigeon Guillemots are feeding chicks now, as photographed by Rozanne Rapozo and Michael Reinhart.

  1. Tim

    Really great images! And yes, fantastic capture of the Pigeon Guillemot chick (its bill anyway) back in its crevice. Soon we will be seeing the adults flying up with a fish and then veering off, luring the chick out for fledging.

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