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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