As you plant seedlings for your backyard garden this year, plant another group of seedlings for your great big backyard, the Chesapeake Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation will teach you how to grow wild celery, an underwater grass, in small tubs in your home

Then you can participate in planting your seedlings at grass restoration sites in the Bay later in the spring.

                  For several weeks, Robert Brown has been trying to photograph the red-breasted mergansers that congregate on the Bay off the First Landing State Park beach.

But he’s had no luck. The flocks have been too far off shore or the water, too choppy.