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Same thing as American hornbeam. edit: Carpinus caroliniana

They look a bit like beech, but the trunk has rippling longitudinal bulges as opposed to the more or less round cross section beech has.

Here's a better black oak pic. Note the precarious squirrel nest in the cherry behind it. I want to take the top out of the locust on the immediate left. They'll all have to go in the not too distant future.

I went out for wood and took this graintastic pic with my phone flash. I'll get a better pic tomorrow.

To the best of my memory, it always carries leaves til spring, but my interest is greater is late fall/early winter when the breeze is crisp, and it's the only tree activity still going. It's kind of a meloncolic sound, which I find appealing that time of year. I'll grab a pic tomorrow when it's...

One of my favorite things is listening to the black oak leaves flutter on my tree out front when all the other trees have dropped their leaves.