Posing my own answer: could #1 be Potentilla (cinquefoil)?

Top looks like a shrubby Potentilla.

Can you get a focussed photo of the possible Daphne? It certainly looks possible that it's something like D. Carol Mackie.

Might the second plant be Mountain Laurel, Kalmia latifolia? (though rather unhappy in that spot.) A close up of the buds might help.

I think the third plant is Euonymus alatus. The branching and twigs look like it, and I found photos of the fruit covering (not the fruit itself) on this Oregon State U page, the second photo from the bottom on the right side.

And I am fairly sure you have an opossum.

Babs, I'll get a better picture of the possible Daphne tomorrow.

The possible Kalmia: the I think leaves are larger and not grouped ed in the way I'm familiar with from other laurels. Do some varieties have larger leaves? I can go back and put something near it for scale.

I think your guess on Euonymous sounds right (aka burning bush, correct?) based on the images you linked to. Too bad it's not something more interesting, but I guess now I won't feel guilty if I decide to take it out. I saw the property in fall and I don't remember it being red, so it probably doesn't even get enough sun to produce nice fall color.

And thanks for the ID of the opossum tracks!

I just searched for potentilla to learn more about it (because frankly it looked rather too scrubby and uninteresting to merit such a prominent place in my small garden) and one of the first things that came up was this choice description from NHBabs from a thread earlier this year:

"I've grown shrubby Potentillas and IMO they qualify as gas station plants; they look OK but never spectacular, they bloom, and they take almost no special attention. I moved away from the house where they were, and I wouldn't take the time to dig the hole to put in another even if it were free. Come to think of it, I am not sure I would be able to find a place I wanted one even if someone else dug the hole. Meh."

Ha!!!!

Yup Euonymus alatus is burning bush. Usually has corky ridges on the branches, and if it doesn't have that, it might be the native Euonymus.

And that's still how I feel about Potentilla. Just boring. Though they might seem nicer if I couldn't grow all the gorgeous plants that enjoy New England's acid soil.

Here is a better shot of what I think is Daphne.

It appears to be a variegated form of Daphne odora.

Not Daphne odora - that has much larger and fleshier leaves. It is one of the summer blooming daphne hybrids, like D. burkwoodii 'Carole Mackie' or D. transatlantica 'Summer Ice'.

Here is my Daphne x transatlantica 'Summer Ice' for comparison, still blooming mid-November in central NH. Usually began blooming in April and continued steadily in small quantities all season through a few frosts. Between the blooms and foliage, a real workhorse of a plant, though never a stunner in the way a dogwood in full bloom is.

Unfortunately, the voles ate every root on the poor thing one winter.

Maybe try again in a few months when the second and third ones have more to look at. Flowers for instance.