Cormorants Stir up The Water at the Najafgarh Lake

Hundreds of Cormorants Whip up the Water

Today, when I visited Najafgarh Lake from the Gurgaon side, I was able to watch a spectacle I have never seen before! Hundreds of Cormorants could be seen diving into the water en mass. They were sort of stirring up the water, churning it up and the sound could be heard from a distance. While the heads and necks of some Cormorants stuck out of the water like stalks of water plants, the others skimmed the water on top of those still in the water. The cormorants whipped up the water in what seemed to be a frenzy.

Hundreds of Cormorants Whip up the Water

While most of the migratory birds were yet to arrive, the resident birds like Egrets, Darters and Herons made up for their absence. I was able to spot a flock of Egrets behaving as one, looking in the same direction in unison, or looking this way and that, looking rather confused, as if looking for someone who had just fled from below their noses!

Where did he go?

The odd one out

In Sync

In One Direction

Also spotted on my visit to the lake was a Goliath Heron that stood still like a sentinel and of course, sundry birds, like Open billed Storks.

Open-billed Storks

Open-billed Stork

A Cormorant carries a Twig for its nest

The Sentinel - A Goliath Heron takes stock

An Open billed Stork glides over the Najafgarh Lake