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Tom

Both adult robins were off the nest this evening and heckling me so I figured I might as well take a photo. Looks like they all have hatched.

#birds #robin #BirdNest #AmericanRobin #AppleTree #orchard #July14 #nature

An American Robin's nest in an apple tree. There are 3 or 4 baby birds that are nearly featherless in the nest. There are 3 green colored apples on two sides of the nest. Previously I had mentioned a lack of mud in the nest which is unusual but I think I can see a bit of mud visible on the inside of the nest now.
Jul 15, 2025, 05:08 · · 0 · 0
Tom

Robin's nest in the Gravenstein apple tree update. I saw two robins sitting in the nest this afternoon as I was walking by to turn some water off. I tried to take their picture but they got off the nest and protested. I decided to take a photo to inspect the nest, saw a little pink fuzzy thing so I guess they're starting to hatch.

#birds #robin #BlueEggs #BirdNest #AppleTree #AmericanRobin #TurdusMigratorius #BabyBirds #orchard

A photo of an American robin nest that has blue eggs and a fuzzy little bird that recently hatched in it. The nest was built without mud which isn't common for these birds.
Jul 12, 2025, 05:18 · · 1 · 0
Tom

Robin nest update. There are two more blue eggs.

#birds #robin #BlueEggs #BirdNest #AppleTree

Blue bird eggs in a nest.
Jul 02, 2025, 05:27 · · 3 · 0
Tom

I saw this nest the other day in an apple tree and it seemed new but had no eggs in it. It looked like a house finch nest. Today when I was propping up the branch the nest was in I saw an American robin sitting in it. It left so I took a photo to see if there were any eggs in it and there were two. It still looks like a house finch nest, no mud!

#birds #robin #BlueEggs #BirdNest #AppleTree

A bird nest with two bright blue eggs. It is lined with fine grass surrounded by grass stems and twigs. It is in an apple tree about 7 feet off the ground. There is a green apple in the lower right of the photo.
Jun 30, 2025, 03:04 · · 9 · 0
Tom

Orchard update. I need to start picking black caps, the apples are slowly getting thinned at the rate the geese will eat them, and there are peaches and a few Brooks plums.

None of the pears or apricots set fruit or the other plum tree. I think this Brooks plum was probably a year older, it had big roots when I planted it.

#orchard #gardening #fruit #berries #BlackCaps #BlackRaspberries #apples #GravensteinApple #peaches #plums #BrooksPlum #garden #AppleTree #PeachTree

A photo of black caps, or black raspberries. They are very dark purple in color when ripe. There are some ripe ones and red ones that are not ripe shown in the photo. There is the plants foliage all around.
Gravenstein apples as viewed from below. They are clustered and in need of thinning. They are about golf ball size and light green colored.
Peaches on a peach tree, they are yellowish green with some reddish blush on some. They are not ripe.
A small European type plum tree with some plums on it. The tree has a chicken wire and welded wire cage around it to protect it somewhat from geese.
Jun 25, 2025, 02:07 · · 1 · 0
Scott Loring Davis

"The Apple Blossom"
By Scott Loring Davis, Fine Art Photography pixels.com/profiles/scottlorin

While photographing Maine's Vaughn Woods State Park, I came across a beautiful wild apple tree growing on the banks of the Salmon Falls River - READ MORE
pixels.com/featured/the-apple-

#appleblossum #appletree #flower #spring #nature #naturephotography #outdoors #art #photography #lobbyart #hotelart #Mastoart #arte #wallart #artprints #buyintoart #ScottLoringDavis #ScottLoringDavisFineArtPhotography

May 27, 2025, 12:39 · · · 9 · 0
Swift

Help, what's up with my apple #tree ?

The leaves on the new growth of branches look diseased. Photo shows example, they have a white fuzz on them and they will curl up and wither. I have a feeling it spreads back down the branch throughout the year, but unsure. It usually hosts massive colonies(?) of some sort of larvae, not sure what, covered in a silk like web. Perhaps this is it? Or perhaps they are attracted to the white stuff?

The apples grow with scabs on their skins. Related?

#botany #appleTree #gardening #FruitTree #bugs

Photo of the apple tree taken in April. It's a close up of some leaves described in post.
May 01, 2025, 07:13 · · · 3 · 0
Tom

Some of the Jonathan and Gravenstein apples starting to grow during the cell division phase.

#orchard #FruitTree #pollination #AppleTree #JonathanApple #GravensteinApple #gardening #garden #TreeFruit #GrowYourOwn #April30

A photo showing apples that have been pollinated and growing fast during cell division. The fruit is small and fuzzy and isn't much more than a swollen part of the stem below where the flower blossom was.
A photo of a Gravenstein apple growing after pollination. The dried up flower bits are on and around it with other smaller or unpollinated parts.
A Jonathan apple graft starting to grow the fruit during cell division after being pollinated.
May 01, 2025, 04:45 · · 0 · 0
Tom

Honey bees on apple blossoms. Both of the Esopus Spitzenburg, or Spitz, are full bloom now and everything else is still blooming with some bee activity.

#pollinators #pollination #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #bees #HoneyBee #bee #April26 #gardening #orchard #AppleTree #AppleBlossom #malus

A honey bee on an apple blossom. The bee is facing down with it's left side towards the camera. It's a slightly dark colored bee. The blossom are white with a bit of pink. The sun is out, the sky is blue with some clouds in the upper and right.
A honey bee on an apple blossom. The bee is facing upward with it's back to the camera. The flowers are white with some pink. There is blue sky in the background.
A honey bee on an apple blossom that is pink and white. The bee is facing away. It is bright colored with a black butt.
A honey bee on an apple blossom that's pinkish. The bee is bright colored on the orange or amber side and has a black butt. It is facing up and to the left with it's back visible.
Apr 27, 2025, 02:45 · · 0 · 0
Tom

Honey bees and apple blossoms. Saw a bumble bee too but it had no desire to stay on a blossom for more than a half second.

#bees #pollinators #AppleBlossom #HoneyBee #AppleTree #orchard #pollination #BloomScrollingWithBee #BloomScrollingWithInsect #FlowerWithBee #bee

A photo showing a honey bee on an apple blossom. The bee is average to darker colored, the flower is white. The leaves are green. In full sun.
A honey bee on an apple blossom in full sun. The bee is average to light colored. The flower has a tint of pink to it's whiteness.
A honey bee on an apple blossom. The bee is dark colored. The flower is pretty much just white.
A honey bee hanging from an apple blossom by one leg. The bee appeared to be stuck so I took it's photo.. then I gave it a nudge and it crawled on top of the flower. It is an average colored bee.. maybe a little light colored.
Apr 23, 2025, 01:45 · · 1 · 0
Tom

Mostly finished with chopping out cottonwood suckers. The view of the orchard/pasture is much better now and the geese gave their approval (or flexing dominance from a distance).

#orchard #FruitTree #geese #pasture #AppleTree #gardening #AppleBloom #AppleBlossom

A photo showing the view towards the orchard/pasture looking northeast. There is a yet to be removed very tall cottonwood sucker on the left, lilac suckers and lilac bush near the center, a scraggly juniper tree left of it, and a forsythia bush in the shadow on the right. Between the lilac and juniper is are fruit trees beyond a fence. In the foreground up high are english walnut branches with leaves emerging. Up high and in the left corner are yellow leaves/bloom of aus hybrid willows. The sky is mostly blue with some small clouds in the upper right area of the photo.
A view looking north at an apple tree with 3 gravenstein leaders and 1 jonathan leader grafted onto some random crab apple tree that grew from seed. There is a smaller but older tree to the right that is partially blooming that is likely a Spitz or hybrid type apple on it's own roots which means it grows really slow, plus it had physical damage from freezing weather with the water running that iced it up and it split from weight with apples on it one harvest season. There is a small EU type plum between the trees.
A view of the Gravenstein/Jonathan apple tree looking northwest. The grass free area to the left was a thicket of cottonwood suckers.
A view looking northeast showing a Gravenstein tree on the left, a Spitz graft tree in the near center, a Jonathan behind it to the right, and two geese next to their blue pools under the Jonathan. One of the geese is flapping his wings at the photographer. There's a silver birch, a couple of spruce type conifers, Lombardy poplars, Douglas fir, and rocks in the distant background. The upper left is dark and shadows of various trees.
Apr 23, 2025, 01:04 · · 0 · 0
Tom

The view into the pasture/orchard is a bit better since I chopped/dug out a lot of the poplar/cottonwood suckers on Sunday. More to take out but I needed a break from swinging the axe and dragging brush so today I moved 250 liters of dirt twice, 4 arm loads of wood, 220 liters of sticks, and 150 liters of leaves... oh and 15 minutes of slicing sticks with the chainsaw for that one raised bed.

The the grafted Spitz apple is starting to bloom now too.

#gardening #orchard #AppleTree #Spring

A photo showing a pasture with some fruit trees with willow and cottonwood beyond it up high. The sky is blue with some wispy clouds. There is an apple tree in full bloom in the lower left center. There's a clove currant in the lower left. A just starting to bloom Spitzenburg type apple tree near the lower right with a brooks plum behind it's trunk low. A comice pear blooming center low. A walnut with some buds growing close and lower center. The aus hybrid willows in the upper right are yellow colored. The old cottonwood center right high has many new green leaves along with some dead wood up high that will crash down randomly because it's a cottonwood. There's lots of things in this photo... you get the idea.
Apr 22, 2025, 07:04 · · 0 · 0

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