There are Snowy Egrets on the island. Sandpipers sit in the mud with Gulls and Skimmers. A Long-billed Curlew walks behind a bush. Birds in the marsh feed, breed, and raise their young in the wetlands. Kayakers paddle past the Great Blue Herons.
Cars pass over a bridge that straddles a thin part of the wetland.
Preserving this marsh as open land increases the beauty of the City of Newport and the Upper Newport Back Bay Wetlands increases the value of the land for those who wish to live and work there.