Cormorant fishing
Trying to get better at ink drawings and value!
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(photo journal from reuters | 15 nov 2023)
Cormorants have been a constant presence in Youichiro Adachi’s life, and when he was young, he cried whenever one of his family’s birds died. Now 48, Adachi still cares deeply for his birds, drawing them out of their baskets each morning and stroking their long necks to confirm their health and maintain a bond.
“For me, cormorants are my partners,” he said.
Adachi is the 18th generation of his family to be a master cormorant fisherman, and one of about 50 people in Japan carrying on the 1,300-year tradition of using trained birds to dive for fish. It is considered the ideal way to catch the sweet ayu river fish, and his family has a hereditary mandate to supply the delicacy to the Japanese imperial household.
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AU that I'll probably never write where the Song of Turmoil works a little TOO well the first time around, JGY tries to wipe it from NMJ's memory to cover his tracks, accidentally erases his WHOLE memory, dumps him in a river to get rid of the evidence.
long way to say here's how da-ge ends up with a cormorant fishing family in Yunping and makes friends with some birds. meanwhile back at Lanling and Qinghe things are a BIT more suspicious
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“Great cormorant,”
by Tzahi Finkelstein
Bird Photographer of the Year competition
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they've been here for a while so i already saw them before leaving for norway but i went down to the polder again today and saw the spoonbills that are staying here this summer (which they dont usually do) and they're still so impressive, like i know this is fully within their normal range but they feel so exotic
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