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This page is here for completeness more than anything. But I did spend 12 hours in Ottawa before I flew up to Baffin.

Ottawa it turns out, is the Groundhog (Woodchuck) capital of the world. They are everywhere, from the Parliament outwards. I saw several along the grass of Colonel By drive (a road that leads from the airport side of town to the city), the university campus and in the lovely Gatineau Park (just over the river in Quebec).

The local Grey Squirrels seem mainly to be a melanistic form, so don't get too excited (or at least as excited as I got when I saw one ... hey I need to get out more). And I caught a couple of Deer Mice in the grounds of my hotel near the airport.

Groundhog

The oh so exciting Grey Squirrel