Birding Paradise? Exploring Cape May in New Jersey!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

If you enjoyed this video, check out when we visited "The Brig" in New Jersey, also known as Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHvEkod4f6p0p80

[@michaelm233]

Two of NJ's best birding spots!

[@aj2isotadxing]

Cape may is a great place to bird year round, glad you got to see one of the best spots in our state. You should come during the spring festival one year , it’s a great time!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

It sounds like it would be a great time!

[@tonymcdonald8727]

Love Cape May. The Meadows, Rea’s farm, Higbee beach, Hawkwatch, Lighthouse, !!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@tonymcdonald8727 definitely wish we had more time there!

[@joyceyang6976]

Glad to see you guys were in our home state 😄 Cape May is a great place for birding 👍💕

[@BadgerlandBirding]

It definitely is! We had a blast there!

[@marksguitars5617]

Cape May is a great spot, been there once during late Spring, loads of shore birds and Boat-tailed grackles, most notably we saw a Sandwich tern, lifer for me!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Very cool!

[@NyssaMysteria]

This made me so happy to see Cape May, I love it there and drive down from Ocean county every year to visit. There's so much to do and It's a beautiful area all around, but now I'll have to do some birding too!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

For sure! Wish we had more time there!

[@michaelsimko7694]

A shoreline birding spot you should visit in April or May here in CT is the CT Audubon Coastal Center in Milford. I fish this location every April and run across many different migrating shorebirds and tons of Mute Swans, along with numerous Song Sparrows and Northern Mockingbirds. I enjoy listening to and watching the American Oystercatchers and watching the different types of Plovers and Sandpipers forage. They have Martin houses and a special little park green area to watch birds forage and bathe. There's a city-owned recreational area with a few freshwater ponds and 2 trails not far from there, along with a state park along the shoreline within a close driving distance that has a walkway going through untouched marshlands with tall dense vegetation. I have a history of using the eBird app for these locations.

[@Kellysher]

Very cool! Thanks for the info on the Oyster Catchers. I’m headed to Wilmington NC the 3rd week of April and hope to see them. I’m adding Cape May to my wish list!

[@HumblingBored]

Looks like it was an awesome day! 😎

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@HumblingBored that whole trip was a whirlwind but very fun!

[@samanthaarmacost134]

I was there this past summer and got to see some great species on a boat tour! Hoping to make it to the spring birding festival this year!

[@markshen3280]

Good Morning 🌅 to you from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR. Yesterday, I saw my first ‘ LIFER’ for 2025, a Common Sandpiper resting among the rocks on the beachfront promenade in the New Territories of HKSAR. I believe it is just taking a break during its migration before heading to Southeast Asia and Australia 🇦🇺.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Congrats on the lifer!!! 🎉

[@markshen3280]

@ Thank you 🙏🤩🤩

[@SherylRhodes]

Thanks for another great episode!!!!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@SherylRhodes you’re welcome! Thanks so much for watching!

[@Julie-iy7vr]

Chincoteague,VA you guys need to check it out!! I love watching the oyster catchers there! Huge birding flyway.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@Julie-iy7vr would love to visit VA someday!

[@nobillclinton]

Beauteous

[@BadgerlandBirding]

👍👍

[@NathanWebb-c5h]

Cape May is a fun place for birding in New Jersey.

[@GiangNTnet]

Amazing

[@Beryllahawk]

Interesting place! It's cool too that the old Battery is still there. Couldn't help giggling a bit at the oystercatchers. They look a little bit like Snipe in the overall silhouette and bill shape, but like.. a Snipe going to a formal, since they're in a tux you could say! And according to all the old mob movies I've watched, those Swans are probably smart to be mute, hehe (It's early and I have not had coffee so the silly is at max)

[@earnestlad1872]

My favorite species here was the Blue-winged Teal. Please does anyone know what subspecies of Lesser black backed Gull was seen here?

[@BadgerlandBirding]

That I’m not sure about! If anyone knows drop a comment below 👇

[@earnestlad1872]

@@BadgerlandBirding Merci

[@realJJ250]

🔥

[@BadgerlandBirding]

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[@Oltoir]

Were you able to get shots of that oystercatcher's band numbers to be able to report it?

[@BadgerlandBirding]

They were already being monitored by some friends of ours!

[@johndoiron9615]

I spent 3 summers as an adult in Wildwood (just up the road from Cape May) a long time ago. Sadly, I wasn't into birding at the time, so all I saw was "sea gulls", which I know now is not the proper way of understanding or labeling them.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Judgement free zone here! It actually doesn’t bother me when people say seagulls