What kind of tree is this?

[Woody]

The bark is thin, almost transparent with a redish tint.  Every other year this tree produced small berries about the size of a bb.  Any ideas?

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[UncleDave]

Check the internet.  I have been for the last 1/2 hour and I give up.  Maybe I don't have all of the info needed as checking the sites it depends on if the "catkins"/seed flower or not, etc.  I tried.

[dakids]

might be a River Birch

[deadeye]

The bark does resemble a river birch but I don't think they have the berries.

[dakids]

I have a friend that is a landscaper. I will ask him sunday.

[deadeye]

I just checked (I have a river birch out back) and they have many points the leaves and the one in the picture has smooth edges.  Also, I see no sign of berries on the river birch.

[troutman]

It could be a type of choke cherry . that is what it looks like to me 

[dakids]

Could be an Amur cherry.

[Randy Kaar]

where is my buddy dotch when you need him...

randy

[Mayfly]

LEAVES: Alternate, simple, 2"-4" long, tapering or rounded at the base, abruptly pointed tips and sharply serrate margins, bright green above, paler beneath.

TWIGS: Stout, smooth, light brown to reddish brown, with numerous yellowish lenticels. Unlike Fire cherry, the lenticels are not evidently horizontally elongated. Bruised twigs have a disagreeable odor.

FRUIT: A juicy, dark red to black drupe, about ½" in diameter, in open, elongated, drooping clusters. The flavor is harsh and astringent.

BARK: Young trunks shiny, smooth, brownish, peeling off in thin film-like layers exposing the green inner bark. Older trunks dark gray, roughened by shallow fissures.

GENERAL: A fast-growing but short-lived shrub or small tree, rarely exceeding 25'. Found in a variety of open habitats, thickets, roadsides and upland woods throughout the Commonwealth, but more abundant in the western counties. One of the first species to revegetate cleared areas, it is attractive in spring flower and provides food to several dozen species of birds and mammals.

[Woody]

Could be an Amur cherry.

You are correct!

I checked it out on this site:  http://www.midwestlandscapeplants.org/plantdetails.cfm?speciesid=767

Thanks everyone for your help!  When I moved here 8 yrs ago, this tree was growing crooked (at an angle). The birds like Cedar Waxwings (one of my favorites) loved to eat the berries.  Well after last weeks storms a large branch was split off of the main trunk-the end result is about 2-3' of exposed trunk.  So I had to cut it down.  It would have looked bad, and besides been open for disease. 

I might plant a couple of these next spring, hence the reason I wanted to know what kind it was!  Thanks again everyone for your help!    This is one reason why I like MNO-people willing to help one another.   

[Dotch]

where is my buddy dotch when you need him...

randy

Busy tearing his hair out trying to figure out what the tree was, where else? Kudos to dakids and Tim who were Johnny on the spot and figured it out. Was about ready to do what I usually do when someone dumps decomposing plants or insects on my desk and asks me to identify them: Ask them a bunch of questions!

[Mayfly]

I was a to a friends house the other day and they had the same tree in his front yard. Asked him and he said it was a cherry tree. I searched and found nothing on-line and then it appeared right in front of my face yesterday.