Workshops Cape May Bird Observatory

For pre-registration programs where spaces are limited, your paid registration ensures a place. Please send payments (checks payable to CMBO), program choices, and dates of programs along with your full name, address, e-mail address, and daytime phone number to CMBO, 600 Route 47 North, Cape May Court House, NJ 08210. You may also register directly by phone; call (609) 861-0700. Sorry, no refunds unless the program is cancelled by CMBO. Instructions for field trips, with meeting times, places, and other details, will be sent at least one week prior to the event, and are usually available upon request.

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BACK BAY BIRDING BY BOAT
Sun, May 04, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Join Captain David Githens aboard his stable, roomy pontoon boat for looks at secretive rails, nesting Ospreys, migrant shorebirds, nesting terns, gulls, herons, and more. The boat launches from Miss Chris Marina, 2nd Avenue and Wilson Drive, Cape May, with free parking available in the adjacent lot. Two-hour boat trips will continue throughout the summer. Call 609.898.3500 to register for these CMBO-sponsored Cape May boat tours. Limited seating available.

Cost: $35 members,$45 nonmembers.

BACK BAY BIRDING BY BOAT
Mon, May 05, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Join Captain David Githens aboard his stable, roomy pontoon boat for looks at secretive rails, nesting Ospreys, migrant shorebirds, nesting terns, gulls, herons, and more. The boat launches from Miss Chris Marina, 2nd Avenue and Wilson Drive, Cape May, with free parking available in the adjacent lot. Two-hour boat trips will continue throughout the summer. Call 609.898.3500 to register for these CMBO-sponsored Cape May boat tours. Limited seating available.

Cost: $35 members,$45 nonmembers.

25th Annual World Series of Birding
Sat, May 10, 2008,

It’s the TWENTY-FIFTH annual World Series of Birding, the event that raises over $500,000 annually for conservation. Learn how to participate or become a team sponsor. Call or write: World Series of Birding, Cape May Bird Observatory, 701 East Lake Drive, PO Box 3, Cape May Point, NJ 08212; 609.884.2736.

E-mail: sheila.lego@njaudubon.org
Website: www.worldseriesofbirding.org

WSB – CAPE MAY CENTURY RUN TEAM
Sat, May 10, 2008, 5:00 AM - 8:30 PM

Want to be part of a team, but worried that your birding skills need sharpening? The Cape May Century Run Team is just the solution! Join CMBO’s talented and fun associate naturalists, and bird at a leisurely pace south of the Cape May Canal all day long, at the peak of migration. Enjoy lengthy looks at cooperative birds. We’re out between 5:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. (though you’ll have the option to begin at 7:00 a.m. and drop out by 3:00 or 5:00 p.m.). We have previously tallied between 134 and 166 species. Consider signing up for the next day’s World Series Sunday Brunch, where teams gather, tales are told, and camaraderie is shared!

Limit: 30.

Cost: Pledges of at least $1/species seen (raised by you: get family, friends, coworkers to pledge on your species count). Sunday Brunch (optional): $20.

BACK BAY BIRDING BY BOAT
Sun, May 11, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Join Captain David Githens aboard his stable, roomy pontoon boat for looks at secretive rails, nesting Ospreys, migrant shorebirds, nesting terns, gulls, herons, and more. The boat launches from Miss Chris Marina, 2nd Avenue and Wilson Drive, Cape May, with free parking available in the adjacent lot. Two-hour boat trips will continue throughout the summer. Call 609.898.3500 to register for these CMBO-sponsored Cape May boat tours. Limited seating available.

Cost: $35 members,$45 nonmembers.

BACK BAY BIRDING BY BOAT
Mon, May 12, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Join Captain David Githens aboard his stable, roomy pontoon boat for looks at secretive rails, nesting Ospreys, migrant shorebirds, nesting terns, gulls, herons, and more. The boat launches from Miss Chris Marina, 2nd Avenue and Wilson Drive, Cape May, with free parking available in the adjacent lot. Two-hour boat trips will continue throughout the summer. Call 609.898.3500 to register for these CMBO-sponsored Cape May boat tours. Limited seating available.

Cost: $35 members,$45 nonmembers.

SUNSET CRUISE FOR SPRING MIGRANTS & HERON ROOKERIES
Wed, May 14, 2008, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Explore the inaccessible reaches of Cape May’s back bay marshes by boat. Join CMBO naturalists and Captain Dave Githens for this encounter-rich four-hour tour (begins and ends at Cape May) aboard the Cape May Boat Tour pontoon boat. We’ll enjoy migrant shorebirds (Whimbrel, godwits, Dunlins, and others), heron rookeries in full swing, Black Skimmers, Common Terns, American Oystercatchers, Clapper Rails, nesting Ospreys, and more. Limited seating available.

Cost: $38 members, $48 nonmembers.

SHOREBIRDS AND HORSESHOE CRABS GALORE
Thu, May 15, 2008, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Until the mid-1990s, over one million migrating shorebirds stopped on the Delaware Bay beaches to feed on Horseshoe Crab eggs before continuing north to their Arctic breeding grounds. Since then, over-harvesting of Horseshoe Crabs has severely affected migrating shorebirds. With N.J. Audubon’s help, a moratorium was put into place in 2006. This program begins at the CMBO Center for Research and Education in Goshen with a hands-on learning session about Horseshoe Crabs, and then visits a nearby beach to see shorebirds and Horseshoe Crabs. Led by John and Margaret Heuges.

Cost: $6 members, $10 nonmembers.

SHOREBIRDS AND HORSESHOE CRABS GALORE
Thu, May 15, 2008, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Until the mid-1990s, over one million migrating shorebirds stopped on the Delaware Bay beaches to feed on Horseshoe Crab eggs before continuing north to their Arctic breeding grounds. Since then, over-harvesting of Horseshoe Crabs has severely affected migrating shorebirds. With N.J. Audubon’s help, a moratorium was put into place in 2006. This program begins at the CMBO Center for Research and Education in Goshen with a hands-on learning session about Horseshoe Crabs, and then visits a nearby beach to see shorebirds and Horseshoe Crabs. Led by John and Margaret Heuges.

Cost: $6 members, $10 nonmembers.

31st Annual Cape May Spring Weekend
Fri, May 16, 2008 -- Sun, May 18, 2008,

Held at the peak of the spring migration. Three full days include workshops, field trips, and evening programs. Brochures will be sent to members in late winter. All are invited; interested nonmembers should call CMBO (609) 884-2736 or (609) 861-0700 for a brochure and details, or visit www.birdcapemay.org/spring.shtml.

BACK BAY BIRDING BY BOAT
Mon, May 19, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Join Captain David Githens aboard his stable, roomy pontoon boat for looks at secretive rails, nesting Ospreys, migrant shorebirds, nesting terns, gulls, herons, and more. The boat launches from Miss Chris Marina, 2nd Avenue and Wilson Drive, Cape May, with free parking available in the adjacent lot. Two-hour boat trips will continue throughout the summer. Call 609.898.3500 to register for these CMBO-sponsored Cape May boat tours. Limited seating available.

Cost: $35 members,$45 nonmembers.

SHOREBIRDS AND HORSESHOE CRABS GALORE
Thu, May 22, 2008, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Until the mid-1990s, over one million migrating shorebirds stopped on the Delaware Bay beaches to feed on Horseshoe Crab eggs before continuing north to their Arctic breeding grounds. Since then, over-harvesting of Horseshoe Crabs has severely affected migrating shorebirds. With N.J. Audubon’s help, a moratorium was put into place in 2006. This program begins at the CMBO Center for Research and Education in Goshen with a hands-on learning session about Horseshoe Crabs, and then visits a nearby beach to see shorebirds and Horseshoe Crabs. Led by John and Margaret Heuges.

Cost: $6 members, $10 nonmembers.

BACK BAY BIRDING BY BOAT
Sun, May 25, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Join Captain David Githens aboard his stable, roomy pontoon boat for looks at secretive rails, nesting Ospreys, migrant shorebirds, nesting terns, gulls, herons, and more. The boat launches from Miss Chris Marina, 2nd Avenue and Wilson Drive, Cape May, with free parking available in the adjacent lot. Two-hour boat trips will continue throughout the summer. Call 609.898.3500 to register for these CMBO-sponsored Cape May boat tours. Limited seating available.

Cost: $35 members,$45 nonmembers.

BACK BAY BIRDING BY BOAT
Mon, May 26, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Join Captain David Githens aboard his stable, roomy pontoon boat for looks at secretive rails, nesting Ospreys, migrant shorebirds, nesting terns, gulls, herons, and more. The boat launches from Miss Chris Marina, 2nd Avenue and Wilson Drive, Cape May, with free parking available in the adjacent lot. Two-hour boat trips will continue throughout the summer. Call 609.898.3500 to register for these CMBO-sponsored Cape May boat tours. Limited seating available.

Cost: $35 members,$45 nonmembers.

CLAPPER RAIL MADNESS
Fri, May 30, 2008, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Have you ever had a really good look at a rail? Clapper Rails are plentiful in the salt marshes of New Jersey, yet many people have only heard these secretive birds. These outings are scheduled for low tide and the peak of the breeding season, when rails typically come out of hiding in search of potential mates. Meet leaders Lee Smythe, and Chuck and Mary Jane Slugg in the parking area at the end of Jakes Landing Road near Dennisville. No preregistration required.

Cost: $6 members, $10 nonmembers.

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