A turkey vulture cruised slowly over the unplanted Maryland field near our friend’s house. An unusual defective feather allowed us to identify the bird on it’s several visits that day.

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.