The woodland around Strawberry Hill Heath is a good location for autumn colours. There are a number of red oaks which, as the name suggests, become very colourful at this time of year.
That said, I am never quite certain with my identification of these oaks and looking at the shape of the leaves I am guessing that there is more than one variety.
The red oaks leaves, or those that I include under the heading of red oak, have pointed lobes rather than the rounded ones found on the traditional native pedunculate and sessile varieties. In fact, some of the leaves are huge in comparison.
These were some of the red oak colours captured during the visit:
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