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Spring Highlights
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- 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
Summer Highlights
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- 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
Autumn Highlights
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- 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)
Winter Highlights
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- 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