I just have to show you these...there were several of the bumblebees and none were ever completely still....and most were rushing from sunflower to sunflower as if they were in a race for their life....
I like the way this one looks beside the bird feeder...most of the sunflowers come to right below the bird feeders. (I had Roger make the hanger for the bird feeders and he made it extra tall till the feeders would be out of reach of jumping cats.)
When I was taking pictures of the bumblebees and sunflowers, I noticed this seed that had been caught in the sunflower's limbs...Well, that reminded me of working at the orchard. I think I have told this before, but not sure. Forgive me if it is a repeat. Anyway, we had over 20 varieties of apples at that small orchard. And I was always in on all the picking...very seldom did a variety get totally picked by anyone else. So, I am speaking from a lot of experience.
Fuji apples were some of the later varieties to be picked...and the Fuji variety we had had real long stems. So, I always had a pair of clippers and as I picked each apple I had to cut the stem shorter...or else when they were being washed and bagged, the stems would poke holes in the other apples.
I cannot tell you how many sunflower seeds I found hidden down in around the stem! It was not hulls, but whole seeds. Another example of birds hiding food. There is no other explanation for it. There were no sunflowers near, other than what the owners put in bird feeders up by the house....and these would be up in apples in the top of trees. And Fujis were the only apples they hid them in...at least that is all I ever seen. And I think I would have noticed if they had been in others.
