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It makes sense they would cross in time .I have a picture some place that shows an oak double both about 2 footers .Red on one side,white on the other .Must have been the same squirrel .

Good heavens there must be a hundred types of oaks it seems .Probabley most of them came from the work of 600 billion squirrels forgetting where they buried the acorns.

As it turns out today my travels took me over about 40-50 miles of country roads . I had mentioned before this area has an abundance of oaks .It just so happens that in one half mile stretch I observed a red oak with red folage just like the white oak in front of my house .Then two white oaks...

Oh say I was in the woods today looking at a dead oak I'm going to drop and danged if the biggest hawk I've ever seen in my life went soaring overhead .Riding the air currents like a buzzard .I thought it was a buzzard at first but the damned thing looked as big as an eagle .The red tail told...

Yes they are .I've got a bunch of rather large trees both around the house plus in the woods . I saw the hawks earlier in the spring but it was hard to see the nest when the trees were in full folage .I suppose the nestlings have left by now .I never actually saw the chicks but what must have...

Closer view of white oak leaves

Another white oak with a red oak in the background which is hard to see but the leaves are about the color of a sugar maple .

Next is a pin oak

Well firstly you have to remember you're in a more temperant climate than here in the lake states .In addition the soil conditions could determine the coloration and perhaps many other factors . A few pics the next few posts .This one is a white oak,obviously the larger with a shagbark hickory...

Well that just depends on where you're at and can vary from year to year .I just took a peek outside my house and the white oaks are more redish while the red oaks are more orange /yellow .We just had the first killing frost last night now the colors will change dramatically in the next few...

This is what the bark on a mature northern red oak looks like.

That was a pic of a baby one probabley purchased as a saplng from a nursery .