A Variety of Visiting Birds at Oyster Cove
I am truly amazed and thankful over and over again when I think how fortunate I am to get to enjoy such a variety of birds from my ‘backyard’ from my third floor balcony overlooking Marshy Creek,...
View ArticleWinged Delights!
This past week we continued to enjoy a variety of interesting birds from our backyard balcony, some returning and some new for me! Our temperatures have been in the 20’s-30’s with a few snow dustings....
View ArticleWho Said It Was Spring Yet?
What a hectic past few weeks! I’m quite behind on my photos (who isn’t haha), more on my excuse in a bit. But I have to say it’s been neat having several species of our winter’s waterfowl still...
View ArticleCanvasback & Greater Scaup
On January 29th, Maryland DNR sent their ice breaker to open the Kent Narrows channel that had locked up frozen. They reported it was 10″ thick! I watched four watermen boats attempt yesterday...
View ArticleCanvasbacks In Flight
Two posts prior, I expressed how lucky our community was to have Canvasbacks so close to our shorelines due to Marshy Creek’s recent freeze-over. The Canvasbacks have continued to visit daily, but not...
View ArticleRafting Up With The Canvasbacks
They arrived and then they were gone, but at least for a few days this past week our community had an opportunity to watch a large raft of Canvasbacks feeding and resting just out beyond our Oyster...
View ArticleMarshy Creek Freezes Over While Waterfowl Try To Survive
This past week brought back the extreme frigid temps to our area, this time they said was the coldest yet for our winter. They are reporting the upper Chesapeake Bay above the Bay Bridge is almost...
View ArticleDuck Dynasty at Kent Narrows
Crossing the Rt. 18 Watermen’s Bridge over the Kent Narrows Channel to run an errand late afternoon a few days ago, I spotted a large quantity of ducks in the waters around the Kent Island Yacht Club...
View ArticleCanvasbacks At Kent Narrows
To continue from my last post about all those ducks feeding around the KIYC Marina piers and bulkhead at Kent Narrows, I scored many great shots of the Canvasbacks, who outnumbered the rest of the...
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