My date is March 29th.
Today I saw no buds breaking. There is currently a solid 6 inches of snow on the ground so it really doesn’t look or feel like spring.
The only tree that had anything on it was the Red Oak, which appeared to still have some of its leaves from last year still on it. The leaves were dead and clearly old, and I’ve seen those leaves on the tree all winter. All five tree did appear to be in the same phenophase however, with all of the trees having buds that haven’t broken yet.
One article I read on the NPN’s website talked about climate change’s impact on phenophases and phenological mismatch. The article mainly covered how climate change and weather tends to have a greater effect on plant species, which flower sooner most of the time due to warming climate. However, animal species don’t react the same and that photoperiod was a larger influence on animal cycles. This shift has caused phenological mismatches