While you're up at the viewpoint check out a few more tree leaves to improve your tree identification skills. The Field Maple has five-lobed leaves like lots of maples but the lobes are rounded, not pointed, a bit like over-sized hawthorn leaves.
Dogwood is more of a shrub than a tree. The leaves have veins that don't quite make it to the edge of the leaf before turning towards the leaf tip. They contain a resin that solidifies on exposure to the air. If you pull the leaf in half you can see the solidified resin like a thread of spider silk.
And the hornbeam with neatly toothed leaves and very parallel veins. Mature hornbeams are in flower now with copious catkins.
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