Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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24 Apr. 29 - Fla., Ga. 6:45 (at Lake City) to 9:00 (Jacksonville): Continuously nearly level country, mostly with thinned-out pine woods, the floor thickly clothed with palmettos and glass; a little farming, mostly cattle and turpentine. Some depressions with water, and grown up to jungles of cypress, etc. Birds noted: Black Vulture 18; Mourning Dove 3; Shrike 10; Kingbird 1; Mockingbird 3; Meadowlark 9; English Sparrow 7. 10:15 (St. Mary's River, boundary between Florida and Georgia) to 11:40 (Jessup, Ga.): Mrs. S. helpt me check the census, as follows: Mourning Dove 12; Orchard Oriole 1; English Sparrow 10; unknown 13; Crow 5; Sparrowhawk 2; Meadowlark 2. Red-shouldered Hawk 2; Chimney Swift Bluebird 2; Black Vulture 30; Red-headed Woodpecker 3; Turkey Vulture 10 Kingbird 3; Mockingbird 3;