Here you can see the area I examined for this phenology blog post. Its protected marine study area in the town of Oceanside Long Island and it is a salt marsh ecosystem.
Compared to Redstone Quarry in Burlington this salt marsh is very very different. Its mostly flat and grassy, there are some dead trees but they died from being unable to survive the saltwater brought in from high tide. The animals in the ecosystem are also widely different, at the salt marsh herons, osprey, seagulls, fish and shellfish can all be found which aren’t seen as Redstone Quarry. I was able to see a large flock of Canadian Geese resting which are able to be seen at Redstone quarry flying overhead but not as in large quantities as I saw here.
I could imagine seeing a heron at Redstone Quarry due to the bodies of water present, but would never imagine seeing the osprey or large quantities of mussels I saw at the Salt Marsh. The vegetation is also wildly different with the quarry having a majority of woody plants and mosses while the marsh is mostly marsh grass, spike grass, small plan species like glasswort and other things like reeds with living trees living on the boundaries or areas where soil has built up to an elevation were the tides cant reach.