If you’ve got honeysuckle (Lonicera sp.) growing in your backyard on Vancouver Island, you’re bound to have some rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) dropping in for a drink. The long, trumpet-like tube of the flower is perfectly suited for the hummingbird’s long slightly curved bill. Along the rural farm roads in Merville where I often take a lunch-time walk, I found …
Honeysuckle
Black Twinberry
The thing that I love about nature walks is that the more often you visit a place, the more likely it is that you’ll see something new. Such is the case with the small non-native flowers that I try to notice more regularly. It is also the reason why I “discovered” a nice stretch of Black Twinberry (Lonicera involucrata). This …