One of these is not like the others . . .

No picture unfortunately.

I go out in the morning to feed the backyard birds.
(Front yard birds are magpies and ibis, they get left over cat food later in the day. They don't mix with the backyard riff-raff.)

Backyard birds are different species of doves, pigeons, sparrows and visiting ducks.

Did a headcount of the ducks . . . yep, the usual 4 - but wait - one of them isn't.

Cormorant!

First one I've ever seen in the wild. Cohabiting with the ducks in the local wetlands and parkland lakes?
Usually coastal around here. We are nowhere near the coast.