National Wildlife: Cape May highlighted among top birding spots in America
Photo credit: BirdCapeMay.org
Want to check out some of the best bird-watching spots in North America this fall? We asked eight of the nation’s top birders to share their favorite places for watching the great avian spectacle of fall migration. Their destinations span the continent—and provide an assortment of options for a bird-packed getaway.
Thanks to geography, Cape May Point is a migration hot spot, says Pete Dunne, a writer, avid birder and director of the New Jersey Audubon Society’s Cape May Bird Observatory. That’s because the point is a bird’s last chance to rest and refuel before making the 14-mile flight south over Delaware Bay. When the weather’s unfavorable for flying across open water, vast flocks of migrants get "bottled up" at the point.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 8/5/2010 10:00 AM 
Categories: Birds
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Categories: Birds
Tags: birding cape may bird observatory birder new jersey auduon north america cape may cape may point pete dunne
Misleading picture - that's a spring scene ruddy turnstones, red knots, laughing gulls --probably on Reed's Beach. It is not in Cape May, rather on (rapidly shrinking) Delaware Bayshore. This scene can only be taken on the one or two weekends in May when horseshoe crabs come ashore to lay eggs which nourish these migrants for NORTHERN journeys to breed in Arctic.
This is not an autumn scene. Worse, red knots have been so severly depleted by overfishing of horseshoe crabs and depletion of essential habitat, that I sincerely doubt that this crowd of SPRING migrants is current for our time.
Ask Pete - nobody knows current conditions, to say nothing of seasons, Reed's Beach any better. He knows this is not in Cape May.
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