A sunflower is such a cheerful thing. This one is in the front yard.
Cheerful.
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Cheery.
The sunflower adds a very cheery note to our vegetable garden.
Not easy.
House Sparrows are not clinging birds.
Extracting seeds from an upside-down sunflower seed head is not easy when you are not a clinging bird.
No, I am not upside down.
This American Goldfinch is.
Blue Jay.
I feed songbirds. A side effect is that seeds are scattered throughout the yard, so sunflowers spring up all over. We let them grow, flower, and go to seed.
Today a gang of eight Blue Jays descended on the sunflowers. I was able to photograph this one from the kitchen.
One of the many.
One of the many sunflowers on our property.
We feed the birds, which means that they and the squirrels deposit sunflower seeds throughout the yard. The seeds sprout. Sunflowers grow. Seed eating birds glean the flower heads. The seeds they miss fall to the ground. The cycle renews, year after year.
Gleaned
The goldfinches have gleaned many of the seeds out of this sunflower head in our front yard.
Forlorn.
A forlorn sunflower stalk, its flower heads long since picked bare by goldfinches, endures a late winter snowfall.
Volunteer
Feeding songbirds has the side effect of birds dropping seed throughout our yard, which results in volunteer sunflowers popping up. We generally let them pop up and thrive or not. This volunteer adds cheer to the middle part of the vegetable garden.
Closer look
This sunflower fills the view. A closer look reveals a honeybee working the anthers, gathering pollen.
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