Choptank River, Maryland

Cambridge, Maryland

Heesun and I took an afternoon jaunt down to my native Maryland Eastern Shore, to Cambridge and the Choptank River. Ducks still lingered at a well-known viewing spot at the end of Oakley Street: numbers of Canvasbacks, Mallards, American Wigeons and Lesser Scaups, a couple of Redheads, and some distant Goldeneyes. 

A Wigeon:

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and a Lesser Scaup:

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And a paddling Canvasback:

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The ducks would occasionally fly off en masse when a Bald eagle floated by or over, but most would return a while later. More pictures in the galleries.