| Re: British birds sipping nectar?
Hi Biomotors,
I'm not enough of a botanist to know if red-hot pokers contain anything akin to nectar ... or infact anything nutritious at all ... but it's certainly not uncommon to observe birds of a wide variety of species drinking droplets of rainwater or dew from foliage.
Could that not be an alternative, and simpler, explanation of what you saw ... the dense flowerhead of the 'poker' perhaps being more retentive of moisture than surrounding plants? |