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Posted On June 18, 2025

Nature is in its glory as the sun rises to the longest day with the start of summer on Friday. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

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Cormorants and bald eagles found resting places on Piankatank River markers over the weekend; photos are by Bob Waldrop.

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Flowers at the home of Martha Thompson Hudgins, Gloucester.
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Red-bellied woodpecker visits a suet feeder in Carter’s Cove, Gloucester; sent by Steve Angell.
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This feeder is definitely not squirrel proof! From Karen Borja of Gloucester. At right, Borja’s tiger lilies are in bloom.

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Daylily and wildflower meadow at the home of Tom Bowen, Mathews.

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Lilies and black-eyed Susans, sent by Betty Ackerson, Hayes.
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Mike Cunningham found the eaglets which hatched in February on the York-town Battlefield still waiting for fish brought by their parents.
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Hydrangea prezioso and lacecap hydrangea, from Judy Moughon, Mathews.

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Prize hydrangea, sent by Janet Clark of Hallieford.
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Rose of Sharon blossoms in Linda Dalgety’s Port Haywood yard.
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Calla lily in Alice Oldfield’s Gloucester Point yard.
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White squirrel is a familiar inhabitant at the home of Mike Hedrick in Gloucester.
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Susan Nottingham sends a photo of a very young raccoon, one of three at her Gloucester home.
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A blazing geranium at the home of Nancy Layng, North.
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Lacecap hydrangeas, deep-red belladonna lily amidst the hosta, and among many beautiful plantings at the home of Cindy Sorensen, Gloucester.

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