North Carolina has a reputation for being a "basketball state", especially along "Tobacco Road", which runs unofficially between Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But there are any number of other nicknames that could also be applied to this state, and one of the things I like best about Cary, North Carolina is that the bird watching around here is top-notch.
I have no expertise in bird watching, mind you. The people in my family share a single pair of binoculars, and while my husband probably knows the names of a few famous conservationists, neither of us could say, for example, what makes one owl different from another. We just know we've seen owls in the wooded portions of Bond Park, as well as Canadian Geese in several places, and finches and sparrows all over.
On my walks through Oxxford Hunt and other neighborhoods where affordable homes can still be found, I sometimes see bluebirds and cardinals enough to feel like I'm in a Disney movie (Eat your heart out, Mary Poppins: I've got a 3+2 with mulitple upgrades in the kind of neighborhood you'd love if you were more of a suburban girl, and it's only $236,000)
It's spring, and I'm here to tell you that robin really does rock in the treetop all day long "hopping and bopping and singing his song." And robin has friends. Their birdsongs seem to perfume the air with music.
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