From the Bodkin Creek channel in Maryland

A black duck plows along on an inlet of the Chesapeake Bay.

A full nest of young ospreys awaits the return of their mom to their nest on a channel hazard marker on the Bodkin creek, an inlet on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.

From below the Chesapeake Bay bridge at about mid-channel, a colony of mostly herring gulls has a thriving neighborhood.

On a small island underneath the Chesapeake Bay bridge, a large contingent of herring gulls spend their summer day sitting, standing, and flying around.

A morning meeting of the Love Point navigation buoy’s double-breasted cormorant congregation, just north of the Chesapeake Bay bridge.

During a short cruise across the mid Chesapeake Bay, we saw many ospreys, cormorants, and gulls above the water. A couple stingrays went by in the water, as well.