{"id":12512,"date":"2017-07-11T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2017-07-11T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:52:26","slug":"pinenut-crackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=12512","title":{"rendered":"Pinenut crackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great excitement yesterday morning (11th July 2017) to hear the familiar call of nutcrackers in the garden of the rectory where I&#8217;m staying here in Hurdal! Excited to see cones falling from the tree (cut off by a nutcracker), and lots of empty cones on the ground! More information with the pictures!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12512 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12514'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750470.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750470.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750470-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12514'>\n\t\t\t\tI&#8217;m the &#8220;Preacher&#8221; in residence this week staying in the rectory (presteboligen) which is now run by the ecovillage ;)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12513'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"761\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1620382.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1620382.jpg 732w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1620382-289x300.jpg 289w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1620382-300x312.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12513'>\n\t\t\t\tI was sitting working with the window open and I heard the familiar call of a nutcracker&#8230;.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12518'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060209.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060209.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060209-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060209-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12518'>\n\t\t\t\tIn the garden, I found several good looking pine trees!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12520'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060213.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060213.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060213-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060213-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060213-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12525'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060222.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060222.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060222-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12525'>\n\t\t\t\t5 needles suggests probably Pinus cembra, Swiss Pine, Arolla Pine or Austrian Stone Pine (Cembrafuru) (I saw this species recently on my trip to Austria) or the closely related Siberian pine (Pinus sibirica, previously P. cembra spp. sibirica) (Korean pine, P. koraiensis, is another possibility)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12523'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060218.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060218.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060218-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12523'>\n\t\t\t\tP. cembra and sibirica pine nuts are important food for Siberian Nutcrackers, mainly an invasive species to Norway (when there&#8217;s a failure of the nut supply in Siberia). However, many Pinus cembra trees have been planted in Norway in the last 30-50 years as ornamental trees and many of them are now producing nuts&#8230;.in Trondheim, near where I live, some nutcrackers stayed after the last invasion and are now a local breeding bird thanks to the presence of their main food supply! The birds are now helping in the spread of this species as they cache the seeds for the winter in the forest as well as locally (there are now thousands of young trees growing invading woodland on Lade in the city)! Nutcrackers have also sowed seed in my own garden (where they also feed on hazel nuts)&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12519'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060210.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060210-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12521'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12521\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060215.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060215-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12521'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the trees was littered with the nut shells and empty cones\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12522'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060216.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060216.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060216-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12524'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060219.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060219.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060219-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1060219-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12516'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750473.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12516\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750473.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750473-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750473-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750473-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12516'>\n\t\t\t\tP. cembra and P. sibirica are also species with nuts large enough to be useful as edible pine nuts for humans along with Pinus pinea \u2013 Mediterranean Stone pine Pinus koraiensis \u2013 Korean pine Pinus gerardiana \u2013 Chilgoza pine Pinus pumila \u2013 Siberian dwarf pine Pinus armandii \u2013 Chinese white pine Pinus bungeana \u2013 lacebarus cembra \u2013 Swiss pinek pine\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12515'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750472.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12515\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750472.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750472-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12515'>\n\t\t\t\tI opened and cracked a few pine nut shells\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12517'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750474.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750474.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750474-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12528'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1201\" height=\"1238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750497.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12528\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750497.jpg 1201w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750497-291x300.jpg 291w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750497-993x1024.jpg 993w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750497-300x309.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12528'>\n\t\t\t\tWe took these along as an exclusive offering for dinner that we had been invited to :) They weren&#8217;t fully ripe&#8230; would probably have been best to store the cones first&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12527'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12527\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/P1750500-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12527'>\n\t\t\t\tPine nuts and cones on a bed of Plantago major!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great excitement yesterday morning (11th July 2017) to hear the familiar call of nutcrackers in the garden of the rectory where I&#8217;m staying here in Hurdal! Excited to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1462],"tags":[2417,2416,2414,2415],"class_list":["post-12512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-nut-trees","tag-hurdal-prestegard","tag-pine-nuts","tag-pinus-cembra","tag-pinus-sibirica"],"views":3877,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12532,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions\/12532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}