{"id":1158,"date":"2013-10-01T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2014-04-07T01:19:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:19:17","slug":"arboretum-robins-cork-castor-aralia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/arboretum-robins-cork-castor-aralia\/","title":{"rendered":"Arboretum: Robins in Cork Trees and Castor-Aralia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned on Saturday&#8217;s bird walk that American robins love the fruit of Amur cork trees (<i>Phellodendron amurense<\/i>).  I returned to see if I could photograph the birds eating the fruit.  I had plenty of opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1159\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/01_robin1.jpg\" alt=\"American robin with cork tree fruit\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/01_robin1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/01_robin1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American robin with cork tree fruit<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cork trees are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanhabitats.org\/v07n01\/phellodendron_full.html\">invasive in our region<\/a>.  Birds eat the fruit and spread the seeds widely.  In addition to the robins, I also saw cedar waxwings in the tree but I didn&#8217;t catch them with fruit in their bills.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1160\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/02_robin2.jpg\" alt=\"American robin with cork tree fruit\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/02_robin2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/02_robin2-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American robin with cork tree fruit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1161\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/03_robin3.jpg\" alt=\"American robin with cork tree fruit\" width=\"800\" height=\"483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/03_robin3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/03_robin3-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American robin with cork tree fruit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Near the ponds, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdinvasivesp.org\/archived_invaders\/archived_invaders_2011_09.html\">castor-aralia<\/a> tree (<i>Kalopanax septemlobus<\/i>) bloomed.  On the first of October!  This must be the latest-flowering tree in the Arboretum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1162\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/04_kalopanax.jpg\" alt=\"Castor-aralia tree in flower\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/04_kalopanax.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/04_kalopanax-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castor-aralia tree in flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Honey bees (<i>Apis mellifera<\/i>) enjoyed this late nectaring opportunity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1163\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/05_bee1.jpg\" alt=\"Honey bee on castor-aralia flower\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1163\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/05_bee1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/05_bee1-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey bee on castor-aralia flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1164\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/06_bee2.jpg\" alt=\"Honey bee on castor-aralia flower\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/06_bee2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/06_bee2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey bee on castor-aralia flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned on Saturday&#8217;s bird walk that American robins love the fruit of Amur cork trees (Phellodendron amurense). I returned to see if I could photograph the birds eating the fruit. I had plenty of opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[59,7,284,58,190,86,493,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}