ID'ing trees

[WDH]

The first pic to the right of the tape (the big leaf) is black oak.  The next one just above and to the right of the black oak is white oak (HOW FITTING!).  The leaf that is below and to the right of the black oak is scarlet oak.  The other four on the right are all southern red oak.  I cannot tell much about the leaves that are on the left side of the tape.

[Pullinchips]

I agree on the black oak as the big one. Scarlet oak (the C shaped sinuses give it away) to the right of it and down. The 4 fartherst to the right are all southern red oak ( Q. cant remember). The one above right of the big leaf is White oak (Q,. alba). As far as the three on the left of the tape i cant really tell or think of any trees this second, but the fartest one down i beleive could be a chestnut oak or sawmp chest nut oak.  (2 diff trees). The small round leaf with out a closer inspection or tree could be many things from black cherry to perssimon, and the far left tree has me puzzeled i cant think of anything right now.  As you can see from your several southern red leavs they are highly variable. 

As far as wind throwing HW if they are on a poor ridge top with little top soil and a hard pan they can fall over from their own weight.  Hw dont have much of a tap root at all more lateral holding roots.  In these recent rains saturating the soil and these windy days those roots are holding onto mush and mush has no substance.  Hw wind throws are very common, look around cities after a wind storm following winter or summer rains of a week or so.

-nate

[scgargoyle]

Thanks for the input. Sorry the leaves aren't in better shape- they looked fine when I packed them, but they curled up pretty bad. From my walking around, it would seem that I have mostly white oak, 2nd would be scarlet, then a mix of the others. Some may have even blown in from neighboring properties. Next trip will be in summer; I'll be more observant then. I noticed that all the trees that were downed in the area all pointed the same direction, indicating a strong southwest wind. Only one sizable HW, the rest were pines. The HW was at the bottom of the hill, in fairly moist soil.

[Pullinchips]

I bet you also have a good many Northern red oaks.  Their leaves look very similar to scarlet oaks but the sinuces are not as deep or "c" shaped.  They are a much more common tree to to the area.

-Nate