Mt. Moosilauke (1870) - Carriage Road Birds
". . . Climbing, zigzaging up the mountain, the forest changes, the ash, beech, and maple disappear, and the spruce, fir, and silver birch take their places. We have reached a different zone, and the birds change, - the soft, sweet love note of the purple finch is heard up among the cones, the ivory billed snow bird is startled from its nest by the path, Canada jays scream out from the fir shade, and sometimes cross-bills, yellow rumped warblers, pine
grosbeaks and lesser red polls, birds that breed in Labrador, are found. The Canada grouse, with their brood of chicks, run from the path. Then there are nut hatches, kinglets, ruby crowned wrens, oven birds and olive backed thrushes far in these woods. . . ."
From "Moosehillock - What Can Be Seen There, Weather Permitting" by William Little, pp. 79-92, The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol.1). ©1999.
