The ‘Raining Cats and Dogs’ * I know, but fish?
This day, a total of nine fish in a span of 3 meters. They are dropped from the air members of the flocks of Great Cormorants that pass through each spring on their way to somewhere else. They are large, shades of black and bigger than ducks; not at all liked by the inhabitants. They come in droves of hundreds. They catch the fish but then either the fish is too heavy or some competition ensues mid-air and the G. Cormorant drops it. They need a long open plain of water to become airborne and this season some of them went into the repair area of the sea locks where fish were captive but could not fly out because there was no distance. Akin to trying to launch your water ski start from a dock with no boat
*“Cats and dogs” may come from the Greek expression cata doxa, which means “contrary to experience or belief.” If it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining unusually or unbelievably hard. “Cats and dogs” may be a perversion of the now obsolete word catadupe. In old English, catadupe meant a cataract or waterfall.
