All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the availability of space.In a recent Note, Cook & Cooper (2004) stated that, apart from some older references in BWP, `there appear to be no other records of Great Cormorants taking prey other than fish'. It may thus be of interest to record that I quite often find stomachs of newly fledged Great Cormorants to contain large numbers of Brown Shrimps Crangon crangon (data as yet unpublished). Furthermore, adults have been found to take significant numbers of the large polychaete worm Nereis virens when it swarms at sea in spring, mainly in April (Leopold & Van Damme 2003). In April 2004 samples from the Vlieland cormorant colony (described in Leopold & Van Damme 2003), large numbers of Nereis jaws were again found in regurgitated pellets, confirming that this prey is a normal part of Great Cormorant diet in the eastern North Sea in spring.References Cook, A., & Cooper, J. 2004. Avian remains in the stomach of Great Cormorant. Brit. Birds 97: 472-473. Leopold, M. F., & Van Damme, C. J. G. 2003. Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo and polychaetes: can worms sometimes be a major prey of a piscivorous seabird? Marine Ornithology 31: 83-87.In 1985, a pair of Ospreys Pandion haliaetus bred successfully on a remote section of the Red Sea coast near