From Democrat & Chronicle
To kill a cormorant
http://on.rocne.ws/2cj1oMTKathryn Adams Orbanek was boating with friends in Irondequoit Bay one early evening recently, when she found herself smack in the middle of a confrontation between man and beast.“We were slowing down and heard 'Boom!' A woman said 'I think it's fireworks.' I said, 'It's broad daylight. It's not fireworks.'”As she looked toward a nearby island close to the bay’s eastern shore, she saw a boat carrying several men. At least one of them held a shotgun.“He was shooting up at these birds,” recalled Orbanek, who lives in Webster. “They were flying around. There were dozens of them.“It seemed so unsafe. It was six o'clicku in the evening; that would be a peak boating time. People just leave work and hit the water,” she said. “Guns, boats, birds. It just seemed insane to me.
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