At one time or another, Erika and I have listed all three local cormorants at the Woodard Bay Natural Area near Olympia. The most common are Double-crested Cormorants that breed in the hundreds in the trees along the edge of the bay. Occasionally Pelagic or less often Brandt’s cormorants are found, perched on distant pier pilings. Identification usually depends on having a scope along, like when we found this Pelagic Cormorant on 10 March 2022. The bird has its back to us and the distinctive white patches on their lower flanks are obvious.
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