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The semi-aquatic Eastern Mud Turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum, is themud turtle found in the Chesapeake Bay area. Found in wetlands and tidalmarshes, is is easlily confused with the musk turtle.
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Fiddler crab on the beach
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A female Diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, puts the final touches onher freshly laid nest of eggs.
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A crayfish home along a Calvert County stream. Crayfish use mud balls to createtowers over their holes along freshwater streams.
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Swallow-tail butterflies on a pebbled beach.
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An osprey - Pandion haliaetus - landing on a nesting platform on St. George'sIsland.
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Schools of Cow-nosed Rays - Rhinoptera bonasus - are a familiar sight in theChesapeake Bay.
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Five Cow-nosed Rays - Rhinoptera bonasus - gliding toward the photographerwith both wing tips up.
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A Cow-nosed ray - Rhinoptera bonasus - near the surface, near the mouth of thePatuxent River.
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2 osprey - Pandion haliaetus - on nest and gulls in the background lining thejetty at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory.
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Four osprey - Pandion haliaetus - on nest off of the University of Maryland HornPoint Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River.
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Footprints in the sand. A Great Blue Heron has left its tracks here along theriver. Compare the sand texture in this picture to the following image.
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Footprints in the sand. A Great Blue Heron has left its tracks here along theriver. Compare the sand texture in this picture to the previous image.
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Great Blue Heron fishing along the Patuxent River.
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Redbeard sponge in the intertidal zone with a white feather caught in one of its crevices.
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A tundra swan family cruising along the Patuxent River.
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Ospreys nesting along a Patuxent River duck blind.
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Profile view of an osprey perched in a dead tree.
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Evening silhouette of an osprey perched in a dead tree.
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A Great Egret.
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