It sounds like a fish tale — a Saskatchewan woman came to the aid of water bird with a camera hanging around its neck ... only to discover numerous fish photos on the memory card.
But it happened to Saskatoon's Karen Gwillim in September, as she was driving through the village of Craven.
Approaching a bridge, she saw a young bird struggling with something, so she got out to investigate.
A cormorant, similar to this one, was found with a camera strap and camera wrapped around its neck. (File/CBC) "It was a cormorant, a black water bird with kind of a long neck," she said. "It had this silver camera kind of dangling from its neck."
When she approached the bird, which weighed about two kilograms, it didn't try to flee or resist. She took the camera off, it flapped its wings and it was gone.
"I think he was relieved to have something that heavy removed," she said. "He seemed all right."
With the bird saved, Gwillim turned her attention to the camera, a point-and-shoot model that had obviously been in the water for a while.
She went home, took out the memory card, let it dry out and booted up her computer.
Lo and behold, the pictures were intact. There were about 200 of them, the most recent having been taken in October, 2011.
"Lots of fishing pictures, giant fish, guys with fish, mostly," she said.
There were also pictures from a wedding, some houses and other photos that seemed to be from the Shell Lake area.
She posted them on her Facebook page, hoping the camera-owner would find them, but for weeks heard nothing.
However, following an interview with CBC Afternoon Edition host Craig Lederhouse on Tuesday, a Saskatoon man stepped forward and said he knows whose camera it is.
It was his buddy's and he dropped the camera while hauling in yet another big fish, the man told CBC.
Arrangements were being made today to reunite the man with his pictures.
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