The Last Look of Winter

 

Yesterday didn't turn out to be the all-day rain event the weather forecasters had predicted.  When this became apparent at noontime I headed out onto a gray and drizzly Assabet River in Maynard and Stow on the last full day of calendar winter.  Most of the day's color was courtesy of the male wood duck...

Visited the eagles nest where according to the info on the Mass.gov website there may be an egg or two...

According to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, "The female Bald Eagle lays one to three (two average)  dull white eggs several days apart, usually between early March and early April.  The eggs are incubated (mostly by the female) for approximately 35 days until hatching."

On the way back downriver I came upon the same dark-around-the-eyes eagle often encountered within a one mile radius of the nest...

At one point in our encounter I got "the look"...

A modest amount of trash encountered along the way...