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  • Photos of the Month: November

    December 1, 2019

    Along with November comes cold weather and the closing of our fall restoration and education seasons. But thankfully there are still beautiful sites to be seen across the Bay region!

  • Photos of the Month: September

    October 1, 2019

    Just when you thought summer was over, it stuck around for September. But warmer than average weather meant more time to play in, protest for, and protect the Bay!

  • Photos of the Month: August

    September 1, 2019

    The dog days of summer are officially behind us, but we're still enjoying some of the amazing images taken last month!

  • Photos of the Month: July

    August 1, 2019

    From fireworks and oyster plantings, to summer sunsets along the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams, July was a magical month around the region!

  • Photos of the Month: June

    July 1, 2019

    From National Rivers Month to Pride Month, there was much to celebrate around the region in June!

  • Photos of the Month: May

    June 1, 2019

    Spring has officially sprung across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, check out some of our favorite photos from May 2019!

  • Photo of the Week: Monet Dreamed

    May 13, 2019

    A reflection of the forest in a stream in Virginia at Poor Farm Park—seems like Monet painted it himself.

  • Photo of the Week: Landings and Last Light

    April 29, 2019

    An osprey lands on a nest next to it's mate in the failing light of evening along the Virginia coastline of the Chesapeake Bay in Mathews County.

  • Photo of the Week: Mr. Crabs

    April 15, 2019

    An Atlantic ghost crab emerges from the surf at Savage Neck Dunes Nature Preserve on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

  • Photo of the Week: Foggy Morning on the Bay

    April 1, 2019

    Birds gather on the shoreline of Sandy Point State Park on a foggy morning.

  • Photo of the Week: Headed Out

    March 11, 2019

    An oyster boat begins the day on a frigid winter morning.

  • Photo of the Week: Last Sunrise of Duck Season

    March 4, 2019

    Two duck hunters head out on the Wye River, Maryland for the last day of the season.

  • Photo of the Week: Eagle in Flight

    February 25, 2019

    A bald eagle takes flight at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in early February, 2019.

  • Photo of the Week: Sail Away with Me

    February 11, 2019

    The sun sets on a cold January day as docked sailboats reflect off a calm Chester River in Chestertown, MD.

  • Photo of the Week: My Blue Heron Neighbor

    February 4, 2019

    A blue heron stands along Maryland's South River.

  • Photo of the Week: Day's End

    January 28, 2019

    The Bay is the place to go whenever you need some deserted January beach therapy.

  • Photo of the Week: Locked in Ice

    January 14, 2019

    A sailboat sits locked in ice on the frozen Chesapeake Bay.

  • Photo of the Week: Almost Home

    January 7, 2019

    Caledon State Park, Virginia, is a popular place to release eagles after rehabilitation from injury. Belle Isle, York River, and Westmoreland State Parks are also popular release sites in Virginia, but this lady was happy to be returned to her old territory.

  • Photo of the Week: Legacy

    December 31, 2018

    Oyster shells on the Chesapeake Bay at low tide, during the golden hour, in Mathews County, VA.

  • Photo of the Week: Paradise

    December 17, 2018

    The Mobjack Bay coastline changes with each storm. The channels out of the extensive marshes move all over, and on this visit were snaking across the beach in an elegant, wide, switchback pattern.

  • Photo of the Week: On Jones Pond

    December 10, 2018

    Virginia's Caledon State Park is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth oak-tulip poplar forest and prime habitat for bald eagles along the Potomac River.

  • Photo of the Week: We Send Greetings!

    December 3, 2018

    A beautiful day at Hughlett Point Nature Preserve was made even nicer by a huge flock of pelicans arriving, a waving crab, and fishing for over 2 hours!

  • Photo of the Week: White Out

    November 26, 2018

    A great egret enjoys a quiet early November morning along the shore at Chub Lake, in Virginia Beach, VA.

  • Photo of the Week: Blackwater

    November 19, 2018

    The Eastern Shore's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1933 as a waterfowl sanctuary for birds migrating along the critical migration highway called the Atlantic Flyway.

  • Photo of the Week: Chester River Tall Ships

    November 12, 2018

    Imagine how pristine the Chesapeake Bay and it's rivers were when these historic tall ships sailed it's waters in the 1600s!

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