Dawn at Petapawag

 
Launched at Petapawag in Groton, MA at dawn on Saturday...

The rising sun soon chased darkness from the river's west shoreline...

The colors of fall were on display...

On the river's east side this stump seemed to be reaching for some of that sun...

An immature eagle was perched not too far from the nest...

...where, perhaps, it had hatched earlier this year...

This blue jay was seen to be possibly drying its wings?...

...or possibly it was injured.  It moved away from the river on foot rather than by flight...still vocal though.

There wasn't much trash and most of it was found in this floating bag of trash...

The small haul...