Marie Read / Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) male perched in pear (Pyrus sp.) blossom, eastern redbud in background, New York, USA. May.

Marie Read / American goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) male in breeding plumage, perched in Eastern redbud flowers in spring, New York, USA May.

Marie Read / Rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), male perched in flowering Eastern redbud tree, New York, USA, May

Marie Read / American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) male singing, perched in eastern redbud in spring, New York, USA

Jack Dykinga / Flowering redbud (Cercis sp) in a heavily vegetated arroyo / valley in the Chihuahuan Desert, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Jack Dykinga / Flowering redbud (Cercis sp) amid agaves (Agave sp) on a north-facing hillside in the Chihuahuan Desert, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Jeff Foott / Western Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) flowering, Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California

Marie Read / Purple finch (Carpodacus purpureus) male perched amongst Eastern redbud blossom in spring, New York, USA May.

Clay Bolt / Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica) flying around a flowering Eastern Redbud tree (Cercis canadensis), Southern Appalachians, South Carolina, USA, April.

MYN / Clay Bolt / Eastern red bud (Cercis canadensis) in flower, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA. meetyourneighbours.net project

Stephen Dalton / Judas Tree / Redbud (Cercis siliquastrum) in flower. Umbria, Italy, April.

Stephen Dalton / Judas Tree / Redbud (Cercis siliquastrum) flowering. Umbria, Italy, April.