Dai Bach swims with the Cormorants, or has a Shag?

King of the Donkey Rock

I've never seen someone swimming alongside a Cormorant before. Or in Welsh, nofio gyda Bilidowcar.  We were treated to this sight whilst having a sneaky Flat White @ Rotherslade Surfside Cafe this morning. Another sunny day in God's Country. 

But was it a Cormorant or a Shag, I hear you ask? Beats the crap out of me. You decide. From https://birdaware.org:-

A poem for you?

The common cormorant or shag

Lays eggs inside a paper bag

The reason you will see no doubt

It is to keep the lightning out

But what these unobservant birds

Have never noticed is that herds

Of wandering bears may come with buns

And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.

Christopher Isherwood

This silly little ditty is apparently by the very same Christopher Isherwood who wrote Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye To Berlin (1938) – the novels that were later adapted into the play I Am A Camera (1951) and the 1966 stage musical and cult 1972 film Cabaret.