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Freeze-Over
When it gets REAL cold along the tidal tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, our creeks, coves and rivers can build up lots of ice and even appear to freeze-over. Our country’s present deep-freeze arctic...
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Canvasback & 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...
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Osprey Return To Oyster Cove & Kent Narrows Area
All is good for now, but a whirlwind of activity has occurred since my last post, limiting my personal computer time at home. Amidst that time also included a vacation to South Carolina and Florida in...
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Marshy 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...
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Icy Kent Narrows Channel
After posting the freeze-over photos of Marshy Creek and the southend of the Kent Narrows Channel, I had a few community neighbors ask if I had gotten a chance to see and take photos of whether all of...
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Duck 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...
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Canvasbacks 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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Ruddy Ducks At Kent Narrows
The final post on the 3-part series of my “Duck Dynasty at Kent Narrows” profiles the cute little Ruddy Duck. The female Ruddy Ducks were the least skittish of all the ducks and would come the closest...
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Icy Kent Narrows Opened by Cutter
My posts on the Kent Narrows and ice-overs we’ve been experiencing received a lot of interest so I thought I’d share an update from what I’ve seen. Back on the morning of February 25, one of four of...
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This Morning’s Sunrise & Moonset
We awoke to 5.5 inches of fresh snow. Had I known, I’d have gotten up earlier this morning. When I opened my verticals, I saw the full moon setting over Kent Island. It was already losing it’s...
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