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carnivores find just use the nectar as fuel to help them catch and eat flies. Now that I know they eat flies they’re doubly welcome here! I wonder if it’s possible to get them to expand their diet to include mosquitoes? These little things fly about 20 miles a day on their way back up here. And the small amount of research that’s been done so far leads them to believe that the same birds return to the same place to eat every year. That may explain why my neighbor who has lived here 30 years always has more birds than I do!
The wild onion crop seemed larger than usual this year and I got curious about this plant. When we first moved here my mother gave dire warnings about what would happen if we even thought of eating the wild onions. And, so we haven’t. But I like to use what’s around me and fresh for cooking and it’s always bothered me that there seemed to be this possible food source there that I wasn’t making use of. So I finally started doing some research. It turns out that these aren’t wild onions, but wild garlic. They look much the same, but the stems on the garlic are hollow and the onions are solid. That definitely makes ours garlic. And, both plants are edible. Although most references I looked at did warn that the taste is definitely more intense and perhaps less pleasant than our domesticated variety. But Fm definitely going to try some for flavoring in some of my cooking this week.
And as long as we’re talking onions, I learned
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