Kiss the Fish Students flock to Great Fox Island in the Chesapeake Bay thinking they are about to embark on a simple field trip designed to entertain. What they find when they arrive, however, is a different story - a place and time they'll never forget. Colonel Lee's Birdhouse: Fort Carroll, an abandoned pre-civil war stone fort in Baltimore's outer harbor, is now home to the largest colony of colonial water birds in the northern part of Maryland. Trees the birds nest in are damaging the brick superstructure of the fort, but laws protecting the birds forbid them from being cut down. Outdoors Maryland is a magazine featuring segments on nature and the outdoors in Maryland.