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Top Locations in December
within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA

This page shows the top birding locations in December. The chart shows how many species can be found in the region for each month of the year as a measure of local "birdiness".

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Rank Map Location Distance Checklists Species
1 Lake Crabtree County Park 3.6 441 115
2 Jordan Lake--Historical Data Only 15.3 49 112
3 Jordan Lake SRA--Ebenezer Point 15.0 227 106
4 Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment 23.4 212 105
5 Mid Pines Rd. 6.7 608 103
6 Lake Benson 11.9 94 102
7 Yates Mill County Park 7.2 347 98
8 Falls Lake--Rolling View 16.1 178 97
9 Schenck Forest 3.6 137 97
10 Mason Farm Biological Reserve 14.6 295 94
11 Falls Lake--Ellerbe Creek RR Grade 19.0 43 94
12 Lake Crabtree Nature Trail--Southport Entrance 3.3 108 93
13 Lake Crabtree Dam 3.3 214 90
14 Falls Lake--Hickory Hill Boat Ramp 18.4 47 89
15 Lake Raleigh 6.0 99 89
16 Jordan Lake SRA--Seaforth 14.9 95 88
17 Lake Wheeler marshes 6.9 109 87
18 Lake Betz 7.3 177 87
19 Lake Wheeler 8.2 49 86
20 William B. Umstead SP--Big Lake 5.7 102 85
21 Shelley Lake 8.1 131 85
22 Sandy Creek Park 16.1 336 85
23 Jordan Lake--B. Everett Jordan Dam 18.7 76 85
24 Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife Learning 3.9 308 85
25 Bond Park 2.7 110 85
26 Butner Game Land--Brickhouse Rd. (Durham Co.) 21.9 28 84
27 Lake Lynn 7.7 166 84
28 Lake Johnson Park 4.2 218 83
29 Jordan Game Land--Transis Camp Rd. 12.6 72 83
30 Falls Lake--Beaverdam Reservoir 18.0 39 81
31 Jordan Game Land---(751 bridge) Northeast Creek 10.6 21 81
32 Bass Lake Park & Trail 10.7 65 81
33 Apex Community Park 3.7 86 80
34 Harris Game Land--Upper Boat Ramp 15.5 69 79
35 Williamson Preserve 19.2 42 79
36 Eagle Spur Rail Trail--Stagecoach Rd. 11.9 23 78
37 University Lake, Chapel Hill 19.3 46 78
38 William B. Umstead SP 5.4 28 77
39 Harris Lake County Park 14.0 73 77
40 Briar Chapel--Pokeberry Creek 18.2 72 77
41 Crabtree Creek Wetland--West of Raleigh Blvd. 9.8 75 77
42 Maple View Farm (Birding From Roads Only) 24.1 93 76
43 Jordan Lake--NC Forest HQ (Model Plane Field) 14.1 22 75
44 Neuse River Trail--Abbotts Creek 14.5 132 75
45 Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve 15.1 43 74
46 Falls Lake--Neuse River RR Grade (Granville Co) 20.0 8 73
47 Butner Game Land--Brickhouse Rd. (Granville Co.) 21.9 12 73
48 Butner Game Land--H Street Fields 23.2 14 73
49 Brier Creek Reservoir 5.9 86 72
50 Symphony Lake Greenway 4.4 58 72
51 Jordan Game Land--Mason Point Peninsula 12.1 16 71
52 Jordan Lake--New Hope Creek arm (Chatham Co) 12.0 13 69
53 Brumley Nature Preserve--North 22.2 163 68
54 Durant Nature Preserve 13.3 54 67
55 Beaver Marsh 16.7 206 67
56 Walnut Creek Wetland Center 9.0 21 67
57 Crabtree Creek Watershed 4.7 37 66
58 Jordan Lake--Educational State Forest 14.7 30 66
59 Old Bynum Bridge 20.4 45 64
60 North Carolina Museum of Art--Sculpture Garden 4.6 55 64
61 American Tobacco Trail--New Hill-Olive Chapel Road Access 10.5 22 64
62 Harris Lake--NE of New Hill-Holleman Rd. 13.3 26 64
63 Macedonia Lake/Speight Branch Greenway 3.5 23 64
64 Falls Lake--Hwy. 50 Boat Ramp 16.8 34 63
65 Knap of Reeds Creek Waterfowl Impoundment 23.9 14 63
66 Middle Creek Bottomlands II 24.9 16 63
67 Rainbow Soccer Complex 16.2 67 63
68 Neuse River Trail--Mial Plantation Road 18.1 15 62
69 White Deer Park 11.6 21 62
70 Jordan Game Land--Farrington Point Boating Access 13.1 27 61
71 Johnston Mill Nature Preserve 20.5 47 61
72 Barksdale Drive Greenway 9.9 11 61
73 Neuse River Trail--Mingo Bridge 13.6 4 61
74 Jordan Lake SRA--Parker's Creek 15.0 7 60
75 North Wake Landfill Park (formerly North Wake Sanitary Landfill) 14.1 30 60
76 17 Acre Woods 18.0 63 60
77 William B. Umstead SP--Reedy Creek Lake 3.8 11 60
78 Neuse River Trail--Anderson Point Park 13.5 15 60
79 Jordan Game Land--Cub Creek 13.7 17 60
80 Blue Jay Point County Park 14.5 49 59
81 Sarah P. Duke Gardens 16.8 71 59
82 Fred Fletcher Park 7.4 49 59
83 New Hope Waterfowl Impoundment 13.8 29 59
84 Hank Anderson Community Park 20.3 71 59
85 White Oak Creek Greenway--West Side 6.7 33 59
86 Discovery Lake (Restricted Access) 8.2 36 58
87 Falls Lake--Dam 15.2 15 58
88 Duke University--Wetland Center 'SWAMP' 16.4 40 58
89 Walnut Creek Trail--Wetland Center 9.0 7 58
90 Third Fork Creek Trail 13.6 42 58
91 Ritter Park 4.3 14 57
92 Raven Rock SP 23.9 26 57
93 Jordan Game Land--(Big Woods Rd. Bridge) Bush Creek 14.8 9 57
94 Lower Haw SNA--Bynum 20.3 16 57
95 Falls Lake 15.1 21 56
96 Little Creek Waterfowl Impoundment 14.5 16 56
97 North Carolina Botanical Garden 16.0 89 56
98 West Point on the Eno Park 20.5 12 56
99 Falls Lake--Will Suitt Rd. RR Grade 20.0 10 56
100 Eno River SP--Few's Ford 23.2 67 56
101 Lick Creek Waterfowl Impoundment 13.2 7 56
102 White Oak Creek Greenway--Wetland 6.1 10 56
103 Falls Lake--Will Suitt Mudflats 18.8 4 55
104 Fearrington Village 17.5 22 55
105 New Hope Bottomlands 15.5 9 55
106 AIHF Trail 8300 Health Park 10.0 17 55
107 Eden Lakes 23.7 11 55
108 Brumley Nature Preserve--South 22.7 22 55
109 E. Carroll Joyner Park 20.6 21 55
110 Dorothea Dix 6.6 18 55
111 stakeout Varied Thrush, Cary (2020) 1.5 215 55
112 Duke Forest--Korstian Division 19.6 28 54
113 Horace Williams Tract 19.1 25 54
114 Falls Lake--Olive Grove Church Rd. 17.1 2 54
115 Town Lake Park 23.4 23 54
116 Patterson Place Constructed Wetland 16.0 43 54
117 UNC Chapel Hill--Coker Arboretum 17.2 50 53
118 South Ellerbe Creek Trail 16.4 18 53
119 North Carolina Museum of Life and Science 17.8 36 53
120 Morgan Creek Trail 17.5 39 53
121 Wilkerson Nature Preserve Park 13.6 25 53
122 Blackwood Farm Park 22.9 29 53
123 Falls Lake--Mountains-to-Sea Trail Jimmy Rogers Road Access 15.2 4 53
124 White Pines Nature Preserve 24.5 25 52
125 Inwood Rd. 7.3 34 52
126 Jordan Game Land--Audubon Platform 12.3 20 52
127 Horton Grove Nature Preserve 24.6 20 52
128 Orange County Sportsplex Pond 24.9 47 52
129 Crabtree Creek Greenway--Atlantic Ave to Anderson Drive 8.6 5 52
130 American Tobacco Trail--Olive Chapel Road Access 9.5 10 52
131 Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve 4.6 33 51
132 Jordan Lake--Farrington Point Rd Causeway 12.9 15 51
133 NCSU Experimental Farm 7.1 22 51
134 Leigh Farm Park 14.5 10 51
135 Rocky Branch Greenway 6.4 19 51
136 Pinehurst Drive Ponds 15.6 17 51
137 Turnipseed Preserve 20.5 8 51
138 Forest Ridge Park 16.5 13 51
139 Swift Creek Bluffs 5.3 19 50
140 North Carolina State University Campus 6.2 42 50
141 Jordan Lake SRA--Ebenezer Church Boat Ramp 14.8 13 50
142 Neuse River Trail (Historic only. Use more specific location.) 13.5 4 50
143 Clayton Riverwalk--County Line to Sam's Branch Greenway 21.1 6 50
144 Dorothea Dix Park 6.9 6 50
145 Crabtree Creek Greenway--Capital Blvd to Atlantic Ave 9.6 4 49
146 Jordan Lake SRA--Vista Point 16.1 2 49
147 Prairie Ridge Ecostation--Bird Feeders 3.9 17 49
148 Carolina North--Tripp Farm Gate 19.7 17 49
149 Pierce Woods and Pond 15.9 26 49
150 Hilltop Needmore Park--North 11.1 17 49
151 Bolin Creek--Community Park to MLK Blvd. 17.4 39 48
152 Penny's Bend Nature Preserve 20.0 9 48
153 Laurel Hill Park 5.4 9 48
154 Jordan Game Land--(Lystra Rd. Bridge) Overcup Creek 14.0 8 48
155 Glennstone/Heron Rookery 18.4 6 48
156 Lower Booker Creek Trail 17.0 13 48
157 Duke University--Reclamation Pond 17.3 34 48
158 Southern Community Park--Fan Branch Trail 17.1 26 48
159 Parker Preserve 15.5 15 48
160 Crabtree Creek Trail--Anderson Drive to Lassiter Mill Road 8.3 8 48
161 Horseshoe Road Nature Preserve 22.1 6 48
162 Jordan Lake--Crosswinds Marina 13.2 23 47
163 Jordan Game Land--Rock Quarry Public Fishing Area 13.8 8 47
164 Hoffman Lake 2.4 9 47
165 Beaver Creek Waterfowl Impoundment 10.6 2 47
166 North Carolina Museum of Art--Pond 4.7 19 47
167 Eastgate Park 9.5 20 47
168 Pritchard Park Nature Trail 17.3 40 47
169 Higgins Greenway 1.2 17 47
170 Chandler's Swamp 16.9 8 47
171 Wendell Park 22.6 9 47
172 Pulley Town Road Fields 22.5 8 47
173 Morris Branch Greenway 7.6 14 47
174 Pullen Park 6.6 12 46
175 Stagecoach Road Waterfowl Impoundment 12.2 8 46
176 Carroll Howard Johnson Environmental Education Park 15.6 9 46
177 Eno River SP--Pleasant Green 21.9 12 45
178 UNC Chapel Hill--Battle Park 16.9 14 45
179 Jordan Lake--Marthas Chapel Pulloff 12.6 10 45
180 Lake Rogers Park 23.7 18 45
181 Crabtree Creek Trail--Lindsay Dr. to Bridge by Galax Dr. 5.5 7 45
182 Ephesus Park--Chapel Hill 16.3 13 44
183 Jordan Lake SRA--New Hope Overlook 16.7 8 44
184 Duke Forest--Hollow Rock & Hollow Rock Nature Park 17.9 21 44
185 Merritt's Pasture 16.9 12 44
186 Martin Luther King Jr Park 19.7 11 44
187 Neuse River Trail--Andy Drive 14.6 7 44
188 North Carolina Museum of Art--Goodnight Park 4.4 7 44
189 Falls Lake SRA--Information Center 16.3 5 43
190 Apex Nature Park 8.6 6 43
191 Ammons Farm Rd. 24.7 5 43
192 Capital Hills Drive Wetlands 13.9 4 43
193 Wooten Meadow Park 6.8 6 42
194 Hilltop Needmore Park--South 11.5 6 42
195 Eno River SP--Cole Mill/Pump Station 21.6 15 41
196 Falls Lake--Rollingview Marina 15.5 10 41
197 Jordan Lake SRA--Visitor's Center 13.8 9 41
198 Baileywick Road Park 10.2 9 41
199 Little River Waterfowl Impoundment 20.6 7 41
200 Chatham Co. Northeast District Park 14.1 8 41
201 Chapel Hill Community Park 16.9 12 41
202 Berryhill Park and Trails 18.4 20 41
203 Poplar Point Wastewater Ponds (Restricted Access) 13.8 11 40
204 Bolin Creek--Adams and Craig Tracts 18.8 7 40
205 American Tobacco Trail--C.M. Herndon Park 10.4 3 40
206 Robertson Creek Nature Preserve 23.8 4 40
207 Haw River--Bynum Dam 20.5 6 39
208 Cape Fear River--Buckhorn Road 20.9 5 39
209 Kildaire Farms Lake 2.3 3 39
210 Homestead Park 19.3 14 39
211 East Fork Mine Creek Trail (Bent Creek) 9.4 11 39
212 Piedmont Nature Trail 15.9 9 39
213 Jordan Game Land--Seaforth Road South End 17.3 2 39
214 Jordan Lake--New Hope Creek Arm (Durham Co) 12.3 4 38
215 Indian Trail Park 18.1 11 38
216 Brookhaven Nature Park 6.7 13 38
217 UNC Chapel Hill--Battle Grove 17.1 6 37
218 Whippoorwill Park & Warren Creek Trail 19.4 6 37
219 Falls Lake--Mountains-to-Sea Trail South of Cheek Rd. 17.4 2 37
220 Carpenter Park 5.1 8 37
221 Lower Haw SNA--Hwy. 64 18.7 3 36
222 Patterson Road Waterfowl Impoundment 14.8 1 36
223 Greenview Ponds 7.6 1 35
224 Falls Lake--Cheek Road Causeway (Durham Co.) 17.7 8 35
225 Crowder District Park 6.8 10 35
226 J.C. Raulston Arboretum 4.6 7 35
227 O'Kelly Chapel Road Waterfowl Impoundment 9.9 5 35
228 Harris Game Land--Lower Boat Ramp 18.6 3 35
229 Leesville Park 7.5 5 35
230 Little River Fishing Facility 23.7 3 35
231 Shaw Lake 9.9 1 35
232 Jack Marley Park 19.7 6 35
233 Historic Oakwood Cemetery 8.7 4 35
234 Coker Pinetum 16.4 4 35
235 Little Creek Trail 15.3 2 34
236 Mary Hayes Barber Holmes Park 22.3 64 34
237 Duke Forest--Blackwood Division - Gate 34 21.5 7 33
238 Jordan Lake SRA--Poplar Point 14.2 5 33
239 Falls Lake--Upper Beaver Dam (Granville Co.) 21.0 1 33
240 Salem Pond Park 4.5 8 32
241 Northgate Park 17.2 5 32
242 Carrboro High School 18.4 8 32
243 Roland E. Horne Walking Trail 23.4 6 32
244 Indian Creek Greenway 3.5 5 32
245 Neuse River Trail--Poole Road 14.1 2 32
246 Duke Forest--Shepherd Nature Trail 18.7 2 31
247 Lee Game Land 22.6 3 31
248 Duke Forest--Gate 12 19.9 3 31
249 Bass Lake Outfall Greenway 11.0 3 31
250 Bolin Creek--Umstead Park 18.1 9 31
251 Strickland Park 8.9 4 31
252 Smith Creek Greenway (Entrance on Creek Moss Avenue) 16.2 1 30
253 Ten-Ten Road Pond 9.4 24 29
254 Mingo Creek Trail 15.1 2 29
255 Neuse River Trail--Abbington Lane 13.5 1 29
256 South Durham WRF 13.3 4 28
257 Shearon Harris Visitor's Center 12.7 4 28
258 Cedar Falls Park 18.2 6 28
259 Falls Lake--Olive Grove Church Rd. Ramp 18.4 5 28
260 Neuse River Trail--Milburnie Park 13.5 1 28
261 Walltown Park 17.3 3 28
262 Jordan Game Land--(Hortons Pond Rd.) Mill Branch 11.6 4 27
263 Jordan Lake SRA--Robeson Creek Canoe Access 18.4 2 27
264 Valley Springs Park 20.7 2 27
265 Biltmore Hills Park (Access from Fitzgerald Dr.) 9.2 2 27
266 Raleigh-Durham Airport Observation Deck 6.4 10 26
267 Falls Lake--Sandling Beach 17.5 5 26
268 Duke University--East Campus 16.6 3 26
269 Honeycutt Road Park 14.6 1 26
270 Raven Rock SP--Avents Creek Access Area 22.3 3 26
271 Beaver Creek Greenway 7.0 3 25
272 West Lake Road Ponds 8.7 16 24
273 Falls Lake--Holly Pt./Shinleaf 15.9 2 24
274 William B. Umstead SP--Turkey Creek Trail 4.2 3 24
275 Jordan Lake SRA--Robeson Creek Boat Ramp 18.9 1 23
276 Neuse River Trail--Falls River 15.6 1 23
277 Jordan Lake--Morgan Creek arm (seasonal mudflats) 12.6 1 22
278 Duke Forest--Gate 4 18.1 3 22
279 Mitchell Mill Natural Area 23.7 2 22
280 Jordan Game Land--Lower Little Creek 13.2 2 22
281 Jordan Lake--Poe's Ridge 19.9 1 21
282 Hymettus Woods Park 5.9 5 21
283 Jones Creek Greenway 21.6 1 21
284 Duke University--Chapel Woods 17.1 4 20
285 DO NOT USE--Historical Only for Brumley Nature Preserve 22.4 2 20
286 Robertson Millpond Preserve 20.7 3 20
287 Jordan Game Land--(751 bridge) White Oak Creek 10.3 3 19
288 Mill Bridge Nature Park 19.4 2 19
289 Duke Forest--Eno Division 22.9 2 19
290 Old Oxford Rd. Pond 20.9 11 19
291 Knightdale Station Park 17.3 1 19
292 Morrisville Community Park 3.9 2 19
293 Falls Lake--Upper Beaverdam Reservoir 19.0 4 18
294 Historic Oak View Park 11.8 1 18
295 Glenn Stoffregen Memorial Garden 12.9 1 18
296 Robeson Creek Greenway 22.9 1 18
297 Falls Lake SRA--Woodpecker Ridge 16.3 1 17
298 Sims Branch Greenway 13.1 1 17
299 American Tobacco Trail--Southpoint Crossing 12.0 2 17
300 American Tobacco Trail--White Oak Church Rd. Access 7.9 3 17
301 Forest Hills Park 15.0 2 17
302 Juniper Level Botanic Garden 13.9 1 17
303 Cornwallis Road Park 16.1 3 16
304 Erwin Road Swamp 17.7 2 15
305 Neuse River Trail--Myakka Court 15.1 1 15
306 Neuse River Trail--River Bend 14.9 3 15
307 Howling Cow Creamery 7.2 5 15
308 Neuse River Trail--Thornton Road 15.5 2 13
309 Lyon Park 15.6 1 13
310 Fallon park 8.1 3 12
311 Jordan Game Land--Bells Church Fishing Access 12.9 4 12
312 Rock Ridge Park 23.8 2 12
313 American Tobacco Trail--Southpoint Mall 12.2 3 12
314 Eno River SP--The Quarry 21.2 2 11
315 Duke Forest--Gate 10 19.3 2 11
316 UNC Chapel Hill--Kenan Woods 17.0 3 11
317 Edna Metz Wells Park 7.1 3 10
318 South Wake County Landfill (Restricted Access) 8.9 2 10
319 Walnut Creek Greenway between Lake Dam Rd & Gorman St 5.1 2 10
320 American Tobacco Trail--Woodcroft 12.3 4 9
321 Wake Forest Reservoir 20.5 1 8
322 Camden Ave Pond 16.3 1 8
323 Duke Forest Rd. 20.7 1 7
324 Duke University--Anderson Woods 17.0 2 7
325 Clemmons Educational State Forest 18.0 2 7
326 Bennett Place State Historic Site 19.7 2 7
327 Eno River SP--Continental Drive Access 21.6 1 7
328 Heritage Lake 19.2 1 5
329 Chimney Swift Roost--Downtown Raleigh 7.9 2 5
330 Durant Nature Park--Fairy Garden 13.4 1 5
331 American Tobacco Trail--Solite Park 12.3 1 5
332 RTP Mountain Bike Trails 7.2 1 4
333 Eva Perry Library 4.2 1 4
334 Neuse River Trail--Auburn Knightdale Road 15.6 2 4
335 Duke Park 16.6 2 3
336 Cates Creek Park 25.0 1 2
337 Black Creek Greenway--Cary Parkway to Dynasty Drive 1.6 1 2
338 Morris Green Park 16.0 1 2
339 American Tobacco Trail--Wimberly Road Access 8.1 1 1
340 American Tobacco Trail--Blackwell Street Trailhead 15.4 1 1
341 Oberlin Cemetery 6.9 1 1
342 MacDonald Woods Park 2.8 1 1