One tree stood out. It was in full bloom w/ white blossoms. The plums, apples, and crabapple trees have blossoms on them too but they aren't near opening yet. So I'm thinking this is a serviceberry tree but it could be another variety of plum or apple that blooms earlier than the rest. I'll do my trick of marking it w/ colored tape and watching it through the summer. Will be able to tell what it is when it puts on fruit. It's not the only tree w/ tape. There is the dreaded pink tape I use to mark buckthorn trees in the fall. I went past three of them on the walk today. One tree had died but even so I left the pink tape. I will check around the dead tree for another year to see if any little sprouts come up. I had broken the limbs of the other two marked trees last fall but I saw they were putting up new limbs so broke those also. It takes a couple of years before a buckthorn will die this way. Tape is easy to carry and easy to spot but eventually I may have a color-coded woodlot.
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