 March 28th - Pennyfield lock in the light rain |
 In the rain at Pennyfield Lock |
 The rain at Pennyfield Lock |
 The Great Blue Heron |
 The Mallard and the reflections in the canal |
 Racemes - A sign of Spring |
 Cutleaf Tootwort |
 Wet trail |
 Mushrooms |
 The duck in the middle of the river |
 Music in the morning |
 Guessing this is a Ragwort of some kind |
 The Carolina Wren |
 The Great Blue Heron on the bridge |
 Dutchman's Breeches |
 What a hoot! |
 The barred owl |
 Swains Lock and lock house |
 Battling geese! |
 The Canada Goose |
 At the bypass flume outlet of Swains Lock |
 Lock house for Swains Lock |
 The hawk |
 Wood Ducks |
 The Northern Cardinal |
 Gill Over The Ground |
 The deer beside the canal |
 The egret - ready to fly off |
 The egret in flight |
 Nailed the landing! |
 The great blue heron |
 The great blue heron |
 The great blue heron |
 The Spring growth |
 The Northern Cardinal |
 March 21st - Parking lot at Dargen Bend before sunrise |
 Boat ramp at Dargan Bend |
 West Virginia across the river in the sunlight |
 The detour |
 The stream connects to the river |
 Shadows on the trail in the early morn |
 Limestone kilns |
 Limestone used to extracted from this "cave" |
 A source for the limestone for the kilns |
 The trail in the morning light |
 Sycamore trees on the West Virginia shore |
 Lock 37 and lock house |
 At loch 37 |
 The Potomac river near Dargan Bend |
 The Potomac river near Dargan Bend |
 English Ivy (I think) covers the tree trunks |
 English Ivy covers a tree completely |
 Amidst the English Ivy |
 Stopped |
 Bloodroot |
 Bloodroot |
 Bloodroot |
 Turning back |
 The Pileated Woodpecker |
 Fungus |
 The Carolina Wren |
 Leaves that stayed on through winter |
 The nest |
 Almost golden |
 Lock house for lock 37 |
 The Mourning Doves |
 Over the water |
 Across the river |
 The river near the end of winter |
 New Spring growth beside the trail |
 The bikers |
 Back to the detour |
 March 14th - Could this be a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker? |
 Signs of Spring beside the trail |
 Bikers on the trail |
 An Eastern Bluebird, I think! |
 The red-belied woodpecker |
 The Downy woodpecker |
 The trail |
 The trail |
 The old canal bed with water |
 The Mallards |
 Hanging out! |
 The Nuthatch |
 White-throated sparrow |
 Building a new bridge over Lock 25 |
 The alien! |
 Campsite facility |
 Turtles earlier in the season than expected |
 Amazing growth |
 Twisted forms |
 Tentacles! |
 The Black Rat Snake |
 The Black Rat Snake |
 The Black Rat Snake |
 Spring growth |
 March 7th - Near White's Ferry - The Cardinal through the branches |
 Near White's Ferry |
 Early morning on the trail near White's Ferry |
 A hawk enjoying the early morning sun |
 Going somewhere |
 Mergansers |
 Fallen Spring growth |
 Reflections in the river |
 A section of the canal that actually has water these days |
 The winding trail |
 The tree |
 Sycamore tree across the river |
 Ice |
 Towers of the power plat at Dickerson |
 On the trail |
 The trail near White's Ferry |