A pink or coral tinge to some oak leaves as they are just emerging
Showy white blooms of common serviceberry shrubs (early spring) and flowering dogwood trees (mid-spring before their leaves are out)
Long clusters of tiny white flowers of black cherry (late spring)
Pinkish to red blooms of hillside blueberry, pink azalea, and red maple—early bloomers
Insects pollinating little flowers on blackgum trees and hillside blueberry shrubs
Birds preying on insects
Hermit thrush and ovenbird running along dead logs on forest floor
Small animals eating winged seeds of red maple
Pinkish to red blooms of black huckleberry
Inconspicuous stalks of ½-inch greenish to purplish blooms of cranefly orchid
Tiny white blooms of striped prince's-pine and partridgeberry
Dark berries of hillside blueberry, black huckleberry, and common serviceberry shrubs
Long clusters of tiny bitter black fruits of black cherry (late summer)
Insect pollinators on low flowers of striped prince's-pine
Birds eating fruit of common serviceberry, blueberries and huckleberries
Scarlet leaves of huckleberries at knee height, deep purple-red leaves of mapleleaf viburnum just above them
Brilliant yellow mitten-shaped leaves of sassafras
Bright orange-red leaves of blackgum
White blooms of white wood-aster
Red berries of partridgeberry and flowering dogwood
Migratory birds feeding on berry-like fruits of blackgum, flowering dogwood, American holly
Birds, squirrels and others feeding from “sap wells” made in tree trunks by yellow-bellied sapsucker
Raccoons, red fox, white-tailed deer, and others feasting on acorns, partridgeberry, beechnuts (from American beech)
Dull green (top side) and purple (underside) leaf of cranefly orchid, low to the ground
Acorns of variable shapes and sizes
Bark—platey gray of white oak; striped pattern of northern red oak; deep furrows of chestnut oak
Male yellow-bellied sapsucker and hermit thrush (males of these species more likely to winter here)
White-tailed deer browsing on twigs of small oaks and sassafras, blueberry and huckleberry bushes
Woodpeckers, white-breasted nuthatch, deer, squirrels, raccoons, red fox, and other small mammals feeding on acorns and American beechnuts
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