Since I have come back to CT for spring break, I didn’t have the chance to visit my phenology site. Instead, I chose to document a northern red oak in my backyard (I’ll call this “somewhere nearby” as specified in the blog guidelines). Red oak dominate Connecticut’s forests (despite the fact that the charter oak, aka white oak, is the state tree. iNaturalist wouldn’t identify the tree for me, but it seemed quite clear due to the leaves that remained on the tree and the surrounding ground. Shown is also a photo of the bud, which would fall under “no evidence of flowering” at this point. I plan to visit this tree again at the end of break to make my follow up assignment.
