Direct Flight

Where the vultures take advantage of updrafts to conserve energy as they circle and soar overhead, the cormorants fly in a direct path from one location to another. When they are flying a relatively long distance, they typically fly in a flock in a V shape formation. Thursday, a flock of five Neotropic Cormorants flew downstream paralleling the river channel:

The vultures dance in the sky, but the cormorants always seem to know exactly where they are going and are in a hurry to get there.

This set of photographs was taken downstream from the VFW Blvd Trailhead along the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River on Thursday, December 19, 2013.