Snowy Owls often visit Massachusetts in the winter. They are creatures of the tundra and like treeless open spaces so they look for a similar environment while here. This female or young male is resting in an open salt marsh in the Parker River NWR. They also like the open space next to Logan International Airport in Boston where they are carefully scooped up and moved to a safer location for the birds and the planes. Life in the salt marshes of a wildlife refuge is very good for a Snowy Owl though and some of the relocated owls end up in the refuge.
Those wooden posts surrounding it are staddles that supported platforms for marsh hay when the marsh was working farm land. Farmers would cut the hay when the tides were right and stack it above high tide water level until it was time to haul it out of the marsh.
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Very nice pictures and write up Mike.
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