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A Downy Woodpecker foraging on a branch near the IAN Cambridge office.
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) on a branch
Conceptual diagrams illustrating four east-west transects across the Maryland Coastal Bays to provide insights into the features of the Bays.
Maryland Coastal Bays conceptual diagrams
Goose and duck hunters build these blinds on the calm waterways of Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
Duck blind
Tree roots are underminded by wave action and eventually succumb while the shoreline is eroded.
Eroded shoreline with tree snags
Stone rip-rap installed by the property owners in an attempt to prevent shoreline erosion. Hardened edges along the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers reduces natural shoreline habitat that fish and other marine animals depend on for food and shelter.
Hardened shoreline prevents erosion
Found on golf courses or vacant gravell parking lots, this noisy plover is best known for its
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) nest in busy…
This emergent aquatic, with its leaves and flowers above water and portions of the stem under water, is found typically in shallow, quiet water. The seeds can be eaten like nuts and the young leaf-stalks cooked as greens. Deer also feed on these plants. The common name suggests that this plant, as well as the fish known as pickerel, occupy the same habitat.
Pickeral rush (Pontederia cordata)
This emergent aquatic, with its leaves and flowers above water and portions of the stem under water, is found typically in shallow, quiet water. The seeds can be eaten like nuts and the young leaf-stalks cooked as greens. Deer also feed on these plants. The common name suggests that this plant, as well as the fish known as pickerel, occupy the same habitat.
Pickeral rush (Pontederia cordata) occupies…
The oldest type of net used by the Chesapeake Bay watermen is called a pound net. Wooden stakes are pushed into the bottom of the Bay, spaced apart in a line that runs across the tide. Nets are strung between the stakes and along the bottom of the river, making a fish trap. In late February the pound netter starts to put in the stakes. By the middle of March he will set his nets and start fishing. Each day the waterman goes out to the pound net and scoops the fish out with a hand net. He will not remove the pound net, except for many repairs, until November.
Pound net
These traditional boats tended to the oyster fleets working the beds in the Bay, buying harvested oysters from the oystermen in the afternoon, and running those oysters to faraway markets and rail centers in Norfolk, Crisfield, Baltimore, and Washington DC, and to local shucking houses and canneries around the Bay.
Restored Chesapeake Bay oyster buy boat
A graph illustrates the issue that the use of nitrogen fertilizers in Maryland has more than doubled since 1970.
Increased Nitrogen Fertilizer Use in Maryland…
A map depicts the general distribution of several of Maryland's common harmful algal blooms, in the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays.
The Distributions of Common Harmful Algal Blooms…
A baby terrapin makes its way to the water.
Baby diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin
A blue heron scans the water for its fish dinner. On a Tred Avon River dockside at Easton Point, Easton, MD.
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
A blue heron waits on a Tred Avon River dockside at Easton Point, Easton, MD.
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
Newborn mockingbird nest tucked deep into thorny pyracantha hedge.
Nest of northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
Snowfall and the tilt of this bird feeder full of sunflower seeds did not deter these birds. Northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) and dark-eyed junkos (Junco hyemalis) were the primary visitors. The male cardinal is bright red and the female is a soft green-gray with red accents. Both have red beaks. The male junco found on the US East Coast has a pinkish beak and is slate gray on the top half of the body and soft white on the lower half. This photo was taken in February 2014 in Cambridge, MD USA.
Birds on a tilted bird feeder
A Maryland native shrub, the surrounding winter foliage of this Northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) shrub provided a male Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) with a protected perch.
Northern cardinal
A Maryland native shrub, the surrounding winter foliage of this Northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) shrub provided a male Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) with a protected perch.
Northern cardinal
Perennial native plants like the bee balm (Monarda didyma) are recommended for rain gardens, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The red color attracts hummingbirds and pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies.
Bee balm (Monarda didyma)
Perennial native plants like coneflowers (Echinecea) are recommended for rain gardens, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They attract birds and pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies.
Coneflowers (Echinecea) and bee
Conceptual diagram illustrating tabulated Best Management Practices (BMPs).
Best Management Practices (BMPs)
Rain barrel in Fleet Street, Eastport, Annapolis in Maryland.
Rain barrel
Rain barrel in Fleet Street, Eastport, Annapolis in Maryland.
Rain barrel
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