Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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Apr. 28 - Fla. 5 p.m. Arrived at Pensacola from Houston. Country all the way is Pine Barrens. Very little farming; a few fruit ranches. Most of pines being felled. Many large tracts cut off for lumber; but new growth, of pines and oaks, in various stages of development. Recovery evidently very quick. Birds, as far as observable from train, scarce; noted following: Shrike 1; Warbling 3; Mockingbird 5; Nightbank 1. Took 3 1/2-hour walk in suburbs here in Pensacola; plenty of trees and shrubbery, but nothing in the bird-line detected outside of English Sparrows, which swarm! Distance New Orleans to Jacksonville 612 miles. Distance Jacksonville to New York 1024 miles.