Candidate designs for the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge quarter
In February 2014, the Commission of Fine Arts met to review eight designs for the reverse of the 2015 Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge quarter. All eight designs featured birds in the marshy wetlands. Three of them showed birds in flight as the dominant feature.
As a pristine, and one of the largest unaltered tidal saltwater marshes in the mid-Atlantic area, Bombay Hook attracts millions of birds annually. During the fall and winter various ducks, Canadian and snow geese make the area their home. Winter is also the time eagles begin nesting. In the spring, horseshoe crabs venture ashore to lay eggs, songbirds return, and whitetail deer fawns can be seen. Herons and egrets are most common in the summer and fall. Truly this park is a nature lover’s paradise.
