I have several of these outside my office window and the robins that feeding off of them this morning are crashing into my window because of the reflections of the trees in the mirrored glass. One actually just broke his neck and is laying outside. Boy is fat from eating berries. What are these things? They seem to be driving the birds nuts.
Hmmm, interesting but those seem more tightly clumped than what I am seeing and in the picture I linked. I’m suprised they don’t have a more local/commen name.
Any chance you could post another picture at higher resolution? The one you provided is nice & artistic, but there’s not much detail to go on given how little of the picture is well in focus. My guess is something in the apple family (perhaps some kind of crabapple?) or the Rose family, but beyond that it’s really hard to tell.
Cotoneaster - No
Hawthorne - No
Flowering Crab - Yes
I don’t know what variety of flowering crab, but the fruit distribution is not a clump like a cotoneaster. The leaf structure is like a flowering crab and not like a hawthorn. Flowering crabs come in enough varieties that one with this trees habits falls into the range. It looks like a flowering crab with small fruits that are just turning to the red stage. Now if tonight you pick on and examine it, you can know for sure.