A couple of weeks ago, when no fish were caught during the River Sid fish lift event, it was suggested quite reasonably by RSCG chair Charles Sinclair that “the large number of fish jumping last week have vacated the weir pool, probably because of predation by cormorants.”
Indeed, this seems to have been corroborated by a sighting that same week by Ed Dolphin: Walking in The Byes this morning and I saw the cormorant in the river by school weir, took my phone out just as it surfaced, any experts tell if it is…
And over the years, there have been some wonderful sightings – Cormorant Catches Huge Fish On River Sid from Stefan Drew and In pictures: the wildlife of the River Sid from Mark Taylor Hutchinson – both with beautiful shots caught of the striking bird in action.
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (7). Photo in U.K..JPG – Wikimedia Commons
This time from two years ago, this blog looked at cormorants along the Sid – as this seems to be a busy time for these predators.
But for a really good account of the cormorant, both generally and specific to the River Sid, an excellent place to go are the pages of Sidmouth Nature | The Sidmouth Nature Project Website, put together by Peter Orchard of Sidmouth.
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