seawatching from Cape May.

Brigantine Division, NJ - The refuge is about a 1-1/2 hour's drive from Philadelphia, just north of Atlantic City. It has an 8 mile loop drive around enclosed freshwater and brackish ponds surrounded by tidal salt marshes and open salt water, and some forest. RAMSAR information.

Reserve. 80 km. of shoreline along the lower Delaware Bay, approximately from the Cohansey River, south to Cape May Point on the New Jersey side. From Woodland Beach to Cape Henlopen on the Delaware side. Also includes the adjacent tidal marsh habitats in both states. RAMSAR information.

shorebirds in the Delaware Bay. Shorebird viewing locations are provided for both New Jersey and Delaware.

mature over time, and pages for new locations are constantly under development. Each completed site guide has an aerial photograph map, a brief narrative with directions, and a checklist of species that can be expected at specific times of year.

southern New Jersey birding guide. Here you will find a collection of places in southern New Jersey to go birding, including sites in Atlantic County, Cumberland County, Cape May County and Ocean County.

season, with the best sites for spring, summer and fall birding. Check the Site Archives section for additional site guides.

• Brigantine Division, Forsythe NWR 
• Cape May 
• Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge
• Corson's Inlet
• Hereford Inlet
• Higbee Beach
• Nummy's Island
• Seawatch at Avalon
• Stone Harbor Causeway 

everyone likes to see wildlife. Whether it is backyard birds crowding a feeder or an American Bald Eagle soaring over our coastal rivers, we delight in watching these creatures that share the planet with us. This site provides more detailed information on 20 areas in New Jersey where the trails take you to wildlafe areas.

some Birding Hot Spots in New Jersey

• Sandy Hook
• Barnegat Lighthouse
• Brigantine NWR
• Cape May County

Includes information on:
• Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge
• Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
• E.B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
• Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
• Cape May National Wildlife Refuge

Tips and edges of deepwater canyons, in New Jersey and Delaware waters. Trip length: 14 hours, 5am - 7pm. Full-day pelagic-trips, onboard the 55-ft Morning Star, a fast boat capable of good speed to get to the offshore canyon, and with full walk-around space for good visibility. Previous trips off New Jersey have shown the Memorial Day weekend to be an excellent time pelagically, for shearwaters, storm-petrels, jaegers, skuas, terns, phalaropes, and even late alcids (puffins). Also: fulmar, gannets, and marine mammals. Over the Labor Day weekend, the 2 back-to-back trips are at the optimum time for the always-sought White-faced Storm-Petrel.

(VENT). Cape May, in New Jersey and Hawk Mountain, in Pennsylvania, are two of the United States' most renowned birding areas. Though sharply different, they both attract splendid autumn concentrations of migrant birds, particularly raptors. Our tour will acquaint us with both places, as well as take in some other nearby hot spots. At Cape May, southbound hawks find themselves in a quandary. They have been moving steadily along the coastline, but here the land ends, and they are surrounded by expanses of water on three sides. This causes a sort of avian traffic jam, and birders are its great beneficiaries.
• Cape May and Hawk Mountain October 06 - October 13, 2001 (8.0 days - Limit 16 ) with leaders Jeff Gordon & Kim Eckert
VENT offers nearly 140 tours to over 100 land-based destinations each year and is the largest tour company in the world specializing in birding and natural history.

....World Series of Birding - Contact: Cape May Bird 

Observatory, P.O. Box 3, 701 E. Lake Drive, Cape May Point, NJ 08212. Phone: (609) 884-2736

Over 160 different species can be seen, including millions of shorebirds. Workshops on bird identification and field trips included. Contact: Cape May Bird Observatory - 707 E. Lake Dr. - Box 3 - Cape May Point, NJ 08212 Phone: (609) 884-2736

Wetlands Institute, 1075 Stone Harbor Blvd, Stone Harbor, NJ 08247-3871. Phone: (609) 368-1211. 

Cape May, New Jersey. Field trips along the Delaware Bay and programs at night. 200 plus species possible. Contact:Cape May Bird Observatory - 707 E. Lake Dr. - Box 3 - Cape May Point, NJ 08212 - Phone: 609-884-2736

was published in 1986. This wonderful book contains very detailed information on dozens of birding sites in New Jersey. New Jersey Birding Sites - by Noel Wamer is linked to the relevant pages of Boyle's guide. It can also be obtained at several New Jersey Audubon Society facilities.

Karenne Snow. 

Jack Connor, Don Almquist (Illustrator). The title's ``Point'' is Cape May Point, N.J., and the ``Season'' is the 1988 hawk-watch, a three-month period from mid- August to mid-November when tens of thousands of migrating birds pass overhead.