Birding

Cape May birding articles, including bird migration and backyard birding.

Bald Eagles Nesting in Cape May

March 28, 2012 By
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Cape May, NJ – In a tangle of vines and tree limbs, set far away from roads and people,  a pair of bald eagles is nesting below the canal  on Cape Island.  Barely visible above the nest’s thicket of branches almost a thousand feet away, an adult eagle pokes its white head out of the [...]

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Red-tail Spring

March 7, 2012 By
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Cape May, NJ – Another Red-tailed Hawk!  It was my 11th since leaving Cape May and I’d not even made it to Somers Point. The date was February 24 and spring was barely in the air.  Red-tailed Hawks were in the air, doing what they always do when spring is about to pop in South [...]

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Merlins In Winter?

December 28, 2011 By
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Photo by Jerry Liguori  Cape May, NJ – As we all know, the weather has been warmer in Cape May this month: green grass, no snow, and a warmer ocean.  Add to that list the two Merlins that were terrorizing blackbirds in the fields along New England Road this week and it seems more like [...]

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Cape May Bird Feeder Time

November 19, 2011 By
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Here in Cape May, the warblers have migrated, the leaves have fallen from many trees, and robins are ravaging the beauty berries.  For some, this is the end of the birding year, but to others, these are signs that the other birding season has begun.  It’s time to put up the bird feeders and stock [...]

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