The migrating birds are back in town, and I’m such a novice birder that I’m going to have to learn them all over again. (In my defense, I note that spring took place several eons ago.) I would never have figured out that these lantern-like fruits are from a Carolina silverbell, which isn’t even in my Sibley’s Guide to Trees, if it weren’t for the interactive map at the Prospect Park Treekeeper site. The bee in the photo above has expired, hunched over his laptop.
