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Popponesset Spit & Ockway Bay, Mashpee
Popponesset Spit, providing a barrier between Popponesset Bay and Nantucket Sound, is one of the South Cape’s most unique areas for its biodiversity. In April, the dunes
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Edgartown Great Pond, Edgartown
Currently, several homeowners of the Lookout Point Association are seeking permits to cut a channel through the spit at Ellisville. They claim that this will alleviate beach erosion and protect
in the marsh daily during season, and small numbers of Great Blue Herons can be found throughout the winter. Black Beach is the northern barrier beach spit that separates Great Sippewissett Marsh from Buzzards
Cod. It is composed of a patchwork of dune and beach habitats. At the western end, the island begins with a spit of bare sand that grades abruptly to a beach grass field after only 65 to 100 feet
, drowned river valley salt marshes, back barrier slat marshes, barrier spits, and intertidal mudflats. These habitats support numerous state, federal, and globally rare, threatened, and endangered species
combined with typical grasses on coastal mudflats. Most of the shore is privately owned and heavily developed. A long sandy spit runs west into the Cole River from Gardner's Neck and contains a beach. Huge
the tidal ponds is 823 acres. Salt marsh, 1,558 acres collectively, borders all rivers and most of the ponds. The Barneys Joy and Little Beach sand spits form the "Allens Pond Complex" and both contain
their food whole or in large chunks, and all the fur, feathers, and bones are compressed into a fur ball called a pellet, which they spit up daily. These pellets can be dissected to give an idea what the owls