'I've learned so much from the bird who's moved in next door to me'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukWhen you think of city living, what most people picture is excited yuppies sipping natural wine, wearing sunglasses, with some tapas -or a raucous rave in a basement below a warehouse in a soon-to-be-gentrified industrial estate.
What they might not think of, however, is the simple joy a nesting bird can bring. Cormorants are now widespread across Britain, and as a bird which eats fish, can be found on the coast or around inland water.
At one point, due to fertiliser pollution, they were threatened — but numbers have bounced back in the last 40 years, particularly in areas which border the Irish Sea.
Now, Manchester is famous for having everything except a beach, as Ian Brown once quipped. But it does have plenty of inland water — which is where one cormorant chose to come. READ MORE:Bizarre row erupts over noisy BUNTING so loud it's 'ear bleeding' in Greater Manchester high street Kyle — as I christened him — arrived quietly last month.
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