Spring is a lovely time to go to the coast. Most of us gravitate towards the beaches, but it can also be fun to visit the salt marshes that line our coastline — estuaries, where rivers meet the sea.

This is one of the best times of year to visit an estuary (the brackish, marshy area where a river meets the sea). The bright green of the newly grown salt marsh grass is interrupted by pools of water ...

While birdwatching down in the salt marshes of the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge this past weekend, something completely unrelated to birds caught my eye. It was a beautiful bright windy day.