Comments on: Bella’s Seeds http://thebigfieldtrip.com/2009/10/bellas-seeds/ Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:57:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ethan http://thebigfieldtrip.com/2009/10/bellas-seeds/comment-page-1/#comment-122 ethan Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:53:06 +0000 http://thebigfieldtrip.com/?p=398#comment-122 An interesting method of seed dispersal described in your report is the "wild teenager chucking chestnuts at trains" method. By being a good projectile, the seed is selected for future generations, perhaps. The picture of all the various seeds you selected is quite remarkable - so many seeds in the city! I send this to you via dull black wires and probably via a few bright yellow and orange ones too! Thanks for sharing information from Bulgaria! An interesting method of seed dispersal described in your report is the “wild teenager chucking chestnuts at trains” method. By being a good projectile, the seed is selected for future generations, perhaps. The picture of all the various seeds you selected is quite remarkable – so many seeds in the city! I send this to you via dull black wires and probably via a few bright yellow and orange ones too! Thanks for sharing information from Bulgaria!

]]> By: Grandma Bertie http://thebigfieldtrip.com/2009/10/bellas-seeds/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Grandma Bertie Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:08:51 +0000 http://thebigfieldtrip.com/?p=398#comment-118 Bella, what a excellant report. Sounds like you are in the "fall" season as we are. The acorns are dropping here also and I've picked up walnuts from two different places. I'm waiting for them to finish drying so I can crack them. I'll have to try your recipe. It sounds "good". The seed on your nose has me confused. It looks like our maple tree seeds. We like to call them helicopters and throw them up in the air and watch them whirl down to the ground. In Kansas those come from the trees in the early "spring". So, is it Spring or Fall? Bella, what a excellant report. Sounds like you are in the “fall” season as we are. The acorns are dropping here also and I’ve picked up walnuts from two different places. I’m waiting for them to finish drying so I can crack them. I’ll have to try your recipe. It sounds “good”.

The seed on your nose has me confused. It looks like our maple tree seeds. We like to call them helicopters and throw them up in the air and watch them whirl down to the ground. In Kansas those come from the trees in the early “spring”.

So, is it Spring or Fall?

]]> By: Jason http://thebigfieldtrip.com/2009/10/bellas-seeds/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Jason Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:45:11 +0000 http://thebigfieldtrip.com/?p=398#comment-116 Great report Bella! I like how you described the leaves falling on the sidewalk and how you described snatching the walnut from the knothole of the walnut tree. Thanks for teaching me about seed dispersal - I did not know about the rattle method of seed dispersal. Keep up the good work! Great report Bella! I like how you described the leaves falling on the sidewalk and how you described snatching the walnut from the knothole of the walnut tree. Thanks for teaching me about seed dispersal – I did not know about the rattle method of seed dispersal. Keep up the good work!

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