They look rather like a group of prehistoric birds; just a little bit 'Jurassic Park' and 'Pterodactyl like'.
Before we spotted this group we had seen another couple fishing in a drain and plundering the stocks of freshwater fish such as Roach, Rudd and Bream.
There are records of Pike eating Moorhens and Coots so why don't some of the big Pike, those I never catch, get stuck into the Cormorants instead?
They are are pretty big bird and have evolved into ruthless fish catching machines. I remember a photograph of one at Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford that had choked itself to death on a Trout of about three pounds, its eyes were obviously bigger than its belly.
A pep talk for the Pike I think, that would worry people wouldn't it, a man talking to the water or maybe I should talk to the Cormorants and tell them to get back to the sea.