Lake Umbagog.
1909.
June 12 [June 12, 1909]
(No 4)
in full bloom to-day, but the Cassandra had just
shed its last blossoms. Above these lowly growths rise
black spruces and larches, scatter about singly or in groups,
to heights varying from 5 or 6 to 15 or 20 feet. Many of
these are misshapen, as well as stunted, and green only from
2 to 5 feet down from their tops, all the branches below
this being dead and thickly draped in Usnea of a dark
brownish color, appearing black in certain lights, in others rich
seal brown. This gives the trees a weird and somewhat
funereal aspect as if they were all in mourning. About its
outskirts, where the land begins to rise slightly, the bog
is bordered by cedar swamps and just back of this
where the forest begins are still taller trees, chiefly black
spruces and larches 40 to 50 feet in height, interrupted
with a few red spruces and sapling white pines. Beyond
those again one comes to the mixed growths of coniferous
trees and deciduous ones common to high well drained
lands throughout the Umbagog Region
Tyler Bog
  There were many deer tracks and one well defined
deeply worn deer paths, in this bog. In muddy places 
I saw a few rabbit tracks.
  Within the confines of the bog proper I noted the
following birds: - Swainson's Thrush 1 in full song, Winter Wren 1 in full song
Canada Nuthatch 1, Nashville Warbler 1 in full song, Black & Yellow Warbler 1 in full song
Maryland Yellow-throat 1 in full song, Solitary Vireo 1 in full song, Cedar bird (heard),
Purple Finch 1 in full song, Junco 1 in full song, Rusty Blackbird 2, Blue Jay
(heard only), Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 in full song, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
2, Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker (clacking & tapping heard, Sapsucker 1,
Hummingbird (perched on top of dead spruce near middle of bog)
Spruce Partridge (?) heard drumming ? - in all eighteen species.