Photos by Donna

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I shared the Tropical Kingbird, and I shared the Eagle pair and their huge active nest in my last two posts from my two-hour visit to Blackwater NWR.

What else did I see?  Here you go, in the order seen.

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Double-crested Cormorants

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Great Blue Heron

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Great Blue Heron (the bigger picture)

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Northern Shoveler (female) leading three Mallards and her partner

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Mallards

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Belted Kingfisher

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Great Blue Heron

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Great Blue Heron

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Bald Eagle

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Bald Eagle

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Northern Shovelers

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AnotherBald Eagle nest at the refuge with their webcam above it  (see it?)

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Bald Eagle nest close-up

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Forster’s Terns and Laughing Gulls

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Forster’s Terns and Laughing Gulls – different angle

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Pied-billed Grebe

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Northern Mockingbird

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Great Blue Heron walking along the road ahead of me

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Great Egret

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Mallard (male)

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Bald Eagle

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Having not visited this refuge in a few years, it was great to be back and see the changes in the habitat and finding my old feathered friends.  Getting a lifer with the Tropical Kingbird was certainly an added delight!

(all photos taken at Blackwater NWR, Cambridge, MD, on 11/1/21 from my car window)

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