On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:43:01 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

>On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:06:19 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>snip
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>>That same pair has been arriving here for nine years now, they'll soon
>>be building their nest. Sometimes there are over a hundred here. I
>>can't really tell one from another until they walk, each has a
>>distinctive gait, so I can recognize those two even from a distance.
>>Yesterday I bought another new tree for celebrating Arbor Day, it'll
>>be arriving for planting as soon as it can be dug from the field at
>>the nursery, maybe two weeks... Paperbark Maple - Acer grisseum.
>>http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/a/acegri/acegri1.html
>
>I've never heard of a Paperbark Maple. I would never have guessed it
>was a maple from the foliage and bark.

There are many types of maples, not all look like the common sugar
maple and silver maple... Japanese maples don't look very mapley
either and there are hundreds of varieties of those. The Paperbark
maple is somewhat rare, and pricy.