Lake Umbagog.
1907.
August 16
less evenly branched while often its outlines are strikingly
if not grotesquely unsymmetrical. In fact it is apt to be
a decidedly shaggy and unkempt-looking tree especially
if, as is frequently the case, it be plentifully draped with
blackish, brownish or gray-green tufts and streamers of Usnea.
Nevertheless it could not well be spared from the remote
and solitary bogs where it flourishes for its presence
adds very greatly to this interest and picturesqueness.
Many of them were once visited by roving herds
of Caribou and some of them still harbor a few
Spruce Grouse. The only other birds which regularly frequent
them are Swamp Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows,
Yellow-rumped Warblers and Olive-sided Flycatchers.
Black Spruce