CAPE MAY POINT -- Looking to catch one last glimpse of the monarch butterfly migration?
"If there haven't been hard freezes to our north, the monarch migration can often leak into early November," said Mark Garland, the director of the Monarch Monitoring Project at New Jersey Audubon's Cape May Bird Observatory. "Last year we had a big day on Nov. 4."
Cape May Point State Park is a good place visit, said Garland. The butterflies will eat their fill of nectar from the seaside goldenrod plants before catching the right winds in an attempt to fly cross the Delaware Bay.
According to Garland, monarch numbers in Cape May Point Wednesday were moderate, but very good at Stone Harbor Point.
So, over the next few days there is a good chance more will be moving into Cape May.
"But we never know for sure," said Garland.
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