Fawns at Dawn

Got out on the Sudbury River early this morning while there was still some mist over the water.  Launched at Shermans Bridge in Wayland and headed upriver.

Came around a bend to find a doe and her three fawns at water's edge...

As luck would have it I was downwind and therefore undetected.  I watched as the doe led her fawns towards the river...

...where they waded in...

...and then it was everybody out...

In another few yards all four of them disappeared completely into the brush, and almost had me wondering if they'd really been there.

A little further upriver I met the egret in charge...

Beyond him was a water chestnut harvesting rig that perhaps had bitten-off more than it could chew...

 Returned to the takeout with a nearly empty crate...

No trash 'round here.