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I guess this is a Black Oil Sunflower because that's all I feed 'em.  I don't think it's a Nyjer thistle.  Anywaysssssss... I shot this with the new 18-180mm.  First shot is in ambient light from the window.  Second one is using two strobes - one from the upper right diffused with an umbrella and using an orange gel, the other a backlight strobe with a green gel.  These things wilt FAST.  You can see the difference in the leaves from the first to the second shot.  It didn't take me more than a couple of minutes to set up the strobes.

I wonder how big they will grow.  Pat has had sunflowers in her garden that are easily 10 feet tall, as have I.  The birds devour the seeds.

I like the pictures especially the second, I would love to see the flowers when they have fully matured, if the birds don't get them first!!

We always got bigger sunflowers from the bird-planted seeds than from seeds we bought and planted.  And they turned up in the most surprising places!