December 27 - At Violettes Lock |
High water flow next to Violettes Lock |
Early morning sun downstream of Violettes Lock |
Bikers in the cold |
All bundled up in the cold |
The Great Blue heron on a tree |
Right in front |
On the trail |
Dogs and bikes |
Early morning travelers to distant places |
At a bend in the river and canal |
Ice formations on the river |
The woodpecker |
The red-bellied woodpecker |
Markers for gasline across the river |
Cattails |
The woodpecker |
The reflection in the canal |
Pennyfield Lock in the distance |
The colorful cardinal in the bushes |
Reflections |
Through the tangled branches |
The bald eagle swoops by before I can focus! |
A hawk |
The hawk |
The canal |
The bald eagle |
The bald eagle |
Reflections |
Reflections |
The bend in the river and canal |
The bend in the river and canal |
Ice on the trail |
Winter scene on the canal |
The Bluebird high up above the trail |
In the middle of the Potomac |
Probably a Brown Creeper |
The canal bed |
December 20th - Entrance to trail at Dickerson |
Starting out on the trail |
The morning sky |
On the trail at Dickerson Conservation Center |
Vultures catching the early morning sun |
Three vultures catching the sun |
The frozen canal |
Welcoming the morning sun |
Let us all welcome a new day |
Vultures catching the early morning sun |
On the trail |
On the way to Dulles airport |
On the trail |
The hawk in the distance |
Frozen surface |
At Dickerson Conservation Center |
The biker |
The deer in the woods |
The Carolina Wren |
Winter scene |
On the trail |
Bird watching |
Encounter - the dogs are curious! |
Follow the leader |
Winter landscape |
Frozen canal at Dickerson |
The family |
Woods after snow |
Going for a walk with their dogs |
Frozen canal at Dickerson |
Dec 13th - The birds awaken - parking lot at Sycamore Landing |
From the parking lot at Sycamore Landing |
As the sun rises |
As the sun rises |
The woods look mysterious in the early morn |
The early morning bird in the bush |
The hawk |
The bluejay beside the canal |
The woodpecker |
The Pileated Woodpecker |
The Pileated Woodpecker |
The female cardinal in the bushes |
Aircraft flying into Dulles Airport |
These guys are everywhere |
The end of the repaved section of the trail |
A Eastern Bluebird |
The sparrow |
A sparrow next to the trail |
Aircraft over Edwards Ferry |
A view at Edwards Ferry |
Reflections on the river at Edwards Ferry |
The river at Edwards Ferry |
The Great Blue Heron on the tree |
In the middle of the river |
Work on the trail |
Red-bellied woodpecker |
Looks like a massive nest |
Runner among the trees |
Equipment on the sod farm |
A house on a rise behind the sod farm |
A golden crowned kinglet, I believe |
A golden crowned kinglet, I believe |
Hidden bluejays |
Guessing this is a Euonymous |