‘Wow…wow…wow’
When you talk about Cape May, it’s not necessary to pinpoint a state. There isn’t a birder alive who does not know that Cape May is the terminus of the land funnel that is New Jersey.
The region is celebrated for songbird fallouts and is known as the “raptor capital of North America,” averaging 50,000 migrating hawks tallied from September to November.
Every visitor hopes that his or her trip coincides with the passage of a migration-spawning cold front and the northwest winds that ferry birds to Cape May Point, but some fall seasons are cold-front impoverished. 2019
