Chipmunk's Peredovik Sunflower #6 is a photograph by J McCombie which was uploaded on March 15th, 2014.
Chipmunk's Peredovik Sunflower #6
This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, World of Sunflowers.... more
by J McCombie
Title
Chipmunk's Peredovik Sunflower #6
Artist
J McCombie
Medium
Photograph - Embossed
Description
This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, "World of Sunflowers".
These sunflowers were unwittingly planted in our flower planters by our friendly chipmunks when they buried the bird seed stashes they had gathered in their cheeks from under the bird feeders in the apple and crab apple trees. They had so many stashes throughout the gardens, they were unable to return to them all to eat what they had stored before the seeds sprouted.
For commercial purposes, sunflower seeds are usually classified by the pattern on their husks. There are two kinds of sunflowerblack oil and striped. The black oil sunflower seeds (oilers or "oilseed sunflowers", which are usually pressed to extract their oil) have very thin shells, easy for virtually all seed-eating birds to crack open, and the kernels within have a high fat content, extremely valuable for most winter birds. Striped sunflower seeds have a thicker shell, much harder for House Sparrows and blackbirds to crack open.
Black oil sunflower seeds have a high oil content that appeals to the majority of bird species, including Buntings, Cardinals, Chickadees, Creepers, Doves, Finches, Grosbeaks, Jays, Juncos, Mockingbird, Nuthatches, Pigeons, Sparrows, Thrashers, Titmice, Towhees and Woodpeckers. As a smaller variety of sunflower seeds, black oil seeds are also more economical because a single bag will contain a higher quantity of seeds than a similar sized bag of striped sunflower seeds. Bird gardeners can also grow black oil sunflower seed during the summer months and birds will strip the seeds from the flower heads when the plants mature.
Black Seed Sunflowers (Peredovik Sunflower) are 3-6 feet tall with mostly poly-headed yellow blooms 4-11" across.
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March 15th, 2014
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