Happy Christmas!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!! It’s normally a super busy time for everyone this time of the year and sometimes I “right my gyros” (that’s old pilot talk having something to do with gyroscopes…old technology) with walks alone in the woods. The images in the linked YouTube video are from several winter walkabouts at Accotink, I used to live about a hundred yards from the creek and a half mile walk from the lake. I understand it’s filling up with silt from the neighborhood drainage and won’t be dredged again. On the one hand it will be a great loss, on the other, a great gain of a wetlands area.

This is a shot of a male and female eagle who nested just a short distance from the path. They had a nest and for many years raised eaglets, fun to watch but during the “green” months you can’t really see the nest and all the eagles unless they’re flying.