We took a drive down the George Washington Parkway, which runs along the Potomac River to Mount Vernon (Washington’s plantation), thinking maybe we could find some birds to practice photographing.

This double-crested cormorant (thanks to Tom Munson for the ID) was a very elusive subject and obviously didn’t want to pose for a picture, but he or she was so pretty, especially with that blue eye, that I just had to post something (greatly cropped).

Washington State’s Marcus Whitman, posted earlier: