This Double-crested Cormorant has been a recent visitor to the Druid Ridge Lake. Cormorants often stand in the sun with their wings spread out to dry. They have less preen oil than other birds, so their feathers can get soaked rather than shedding water like a duck’s. However, having wet feathers make it easier for cormorants to hunt underwater with agility and speed.
Eastern Chipmunk poised on a tree stump at Oregon Ridge.
The Indigo Bunting is a common and widespread songbird with a characteristic brilliant blue breeding plumage and darker blue feathers on the wings and tail. Taken at the office.
This Great Blue Heron caught a catfish, then proceeded to repeatedly stab it before successfully swallowing the catfish whole. Taken at Druid Ridge.
Though it may seem that Double-crested Cormorants are simply dark birds with long snaky necks and a primitive, reptilian appearance, up-close they’re quite colorful—with orange-yellow skin on their face and throat and their most striking feature; sparkling aquamarine eyes. Taken at Druid Ridge
No Baltimore based nature / bird photo collection would be authentic without flame-orange and black Baltimore Oriole (blackbird family). I am thrilled to add these pictures to my collection. Interestingly, this bird received its name from the fact that the male’s colors resemble those on the coat-of-arms of Lord Baltimore (Cecil Calvert, Second Baron Baltimore, Proprietor of the Maryland colony).
Lake Ashburton, a 25 acre reservoir inside Hanlon Park in the Northwest District of Baltimore
Lake Ashburton in Hanlon Park and CENTENNIAL PARK – HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND
Quarry at Greenspring
Yellow-crowned Night Heron Male & Female
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