A black duck plows along on an inlet of the Chesapeake Bay.
Sea duck
birds
Osprey on the wishbone tree
Young ospreys of Bodkin creek
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.
Every gull to their posts
From below the Chesapeake Bay bridge at about mid-channel, a colony of mostly herring gulls has a thriving neighborhood.
Herring gull cleared to land
On a small island underneath the Chesapeake Bay bridge, a large contingent of herring gulls spend their summer day sitting, standing, and flying around.
Cult meeting at Love Point
A morning meeting of the Love Point navigation buoy’s double-breasted cormorant congregation, just north of the Chesapeake Bay bridge.
Osprey over the Chesapeake
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.
Home sweet home
The female red-bellied woodpecker (left) brings food to a waiting male woodpecker. We don’t know if this is a juvenile male woodpecker or a stay-at-home dad.
Birch tree condo
A red-bellied woodpecker (maybe the same one) looks out from the nest we reported on in a our previous post.
The nest is about 40 feet up in a rotting birch tree. It has taken patience, luck, a long lens, a tripod, and just enough shutter speed for a decent image.
Red-bellied woodpecker on high
For many days we have seen red-bellied woodpeckers visiting our backwoods. This is a male with a seed or some other food. At this time, it was not obvious that he is perched at a hole in the side of this birch tree.
john's f-stop 