Cormorants are back

I remember the excitement the first time I saw the cormorants sitting on the wooden piles near the bridge that links Wanamassa to Asbury Park on Sunset Ave. They've become old hat now; such easy targets. Still, they seem to winter further south because yesterday was the first time I've seen them since last year. I was lucky to get this picture of one on a pole as another went into its take-off run right beside it: