{"id":58417,"date":"2019-06-08T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T12:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=58417"},"modified":"2025-05-26T03:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:20:45","slug":"flowering-chokecherry-trees-aka-blooming-bird-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/06\/08\/flowering-chokecherry-trees-aka-blooming-bird-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering Chokecherry Trees – AKA Blooming Bird Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FloweringFlowering Chokecherry – Nikon D500, f13, 1\/1250, ISO 640, -0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Chokecherry trees are flowering in northern Utah and some have just started to bloom heavily at higher elevations in the Wasatch Mountains<\/span><\/a>. After the sun warms the chokecherry blooms up a little in the morning I have been delighted by their fragrance wafting through the air. I love to take a deep breath and savor the aroma of their blooms which has a slight hint of honey to it. The scent is heady, delicious, and it tickles my olfactory senses. I know I don’t have long to savor the smell of the chokecherry blooms.<\/p>\n

\"ChokecherryChokecherry in bloom in the Wasatch Mountains – Nikon D500, f13, 1\/800, ISO 640, -1.0 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of our wetter than normal spring it seems that the chokecherries are doing well, extremely well. Many of the chokecherry branches are bending low because of the weight of the blossoms.<\/p>\n

\"WesternWestern Chokecherry bough in bloom – Nikon D500, f13, 1\/1600, ISO 640, -1.0 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

They might be flowering trees but I am well aware that they are also blooming bird food.<\/p>\n

It won’t take all that long for the blooms to become fruit and to ripen. By mid to late July birds will start to feast on the fruits although in August the chokecherries seem to be the ripest up in Utah’s Wasatch and Uinta Mountains.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature American Robin swallowing a ripe chokecherry – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 640, -0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

This year I hope to spend time focused on the birds that feed on the ripened chokecherries. Last year I saw and photographed American Robins gorging on them in the high Uintas and the Wasatch Mountains. Other birds feed on them too and I’d love adding images of those birds feasting on the chokecherries to my portfolio.<\/p>\n

For now though I am going to take deep breaths and inhale the great smelling perfume of the blooming chokecherry trees while I can.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to view more of my flowers, shrubs, trees, seeds, and leaves photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because of our wetter than normal spring it seems that the chokecherries are doing well, extremely well. Many of the chokecherry branches are bending low because of the weight of the blossoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[456,27,4594,5346,6753,1731,5345,5219,26,773,12888],"tags":[2427,7149,6627,6098,7284,6531,6606,6496,4067,4302,6532,7282,7283,6642,5199,1048,7281],"class_list":["post-58417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-robins","category-avian","category-morgan-county","category-shrubs","category-smith-and-morehouse-reservoir","category-summit-county-utah","category-trees","category-uinta-wasatch-cache-national-forest","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","category-western-chokecherry","tag-american-robin","tag-bird-food","tag-bloom","tag-blooming","tag-cherry","tag-chokecherry","tag-flowering-shrubs","tag-flowering-tree","tag-immature","tag-native","tag-prunus-virginiana","tag-prunus-virginiana-demissa","tag-ripe","tag-robin","tag-robins","tag-turdus-migratorius","tag-western-chokecherry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/american-robin-immature-chokecherry-mia-mcpherson-1759.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-fcd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70679,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/06\/08\/blooming-chokecherry-trees-in-utahs-wasatch-mountains\/","url_meta":{"origin":58417,"position":0},"title":"Blooming Chokecherry Trees In Utah’s Wasatch Mountains","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not just a bird photographer. 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