Winter refuge
Several months ago, when the weather was still warm and I was in pre-surgery walking mode, the pock-marked edges of every salt marsh I visited were alive with Fiddler Crabs, which excavate these burrows as a way to escape from potential danger—often the bills and appetites of herons and egrets. The predator birds, of course, have now largely moved south, so the crabs are safe. They are not, however, cold hardy, so, until the warmer weather returns, the Fiddlers will be "fiddling about" deep down in their burrows and hibernating out of the reach of the frost.
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