The Flightless Cormorant is noted for its elaborate mating rituals. There is much dancing and considerable bickering. The male presents the female with seaweed to build their nest. We did not catch the seaweed presentation, but we spent considerable time watching them negotiating various nuptial arrangements. In this image, I move in on a mating pair, revealing the turquoise eye of one of them, and abstracting its partner. The beaks are crossing, linking the pair in potential matrimony. The late afternoon brings both a bluish sheen and a golden crown to the head of the cormorant in the foreground, while the other fades to into the shadows.