Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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June 4 Ottawa Ottawa, 3 1/2 hrs. (memory serves): Crow (fully 35); Bronze Creeper (12); English Sparrow (3); Bobolink (5'); Red-winged Blackbird (4); Chimney Swift (2) Barn Swallow (8); Tree Swallow (4); Flitcher (1); Red-headed Woodpecker (1); Meadowlark (6); Robin (3); Kingbird (2). A beautiful warm sunshining afternoon, after the rather chilly rain of last night and this forenoon. We walked out from 3 to 5:30 to the Victoria Museum (closed on Sundays) and thence to the grounds around the ruins of the Parliament Bldgs. Maple trees, now in full leaf, line the streets and parkways, while there is abundant scrubbery along the Ottawa River. Birds are plentiful. This we didn't get out of the main city. Saw a Baltimore Oriole, 5, in full pursuit of a