Spring Redbud
by Darren Fisher
Title
Spring Redbud
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A stunning capture of a Eastern Redbud tree in bloom with a House Sparrow perched and looking right at us. Cercis canadensis (eastern redbud) is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, native to eastern North America from Southern Ontario, Canada south to northern Florida but can thrive as far west as California.
The flowers are showy, light to dark magenta pink in color, 1.5 cm (� inch) long, appearing in clusters from Spring to early Summer, on bare stems before the leaves, sometimes on the trunk itself. The flowers are pollinated by long-tongued bees such as blueberry bees and carpenter bees. Short-tongued bees apparently cannot reach the nectaries. The fruit are flattened, dry, brown, pea-like pods, 5�10 cm (2-4 inches) long that contain flat, elliptical, brown seeds 6 mm (� inch) long, maturing in August to October.
The House Sparrow is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. A small bird, it has a typical length of 16 cm and a weight of 24�39.5 g.
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April 19th, 2014
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