The Terrell River “Monster”

D accompanied me recently to Terrell River County Park (previously mentioned here), where we spent a few pleasurable hours wandering the trails.

Along the way, though, something caught my eye — a small, dessicated thing, a Dead Thing, that was not immediately identifiable. Fortunately D likes to poke at things with a stick, and he turned it over to its less rotted away side.

Although I had hoped it would prove an unidentifiable mystery, like the Montauk Monster (or whatever it was that washed up in Southold), upon closer inspection this appears to be simply a dead bird’s head. It keeps going around in my mind that this is a cormorant’s head, but I am not entirely sure.

Another view here and here

The Terrell River “Monster”
26 May 2009
Terrell River County Park, Center Moriches, NY