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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_L8t1FepGLGfB4pDm39r0AA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi all, Here's a bunch of photos from the last two days, Highlights #6 to 20. Highlight #8 is a plant we can't identify. It's tiny, perhaps 25mm high, and grows on the wind swept coastal barrens of the Pennant Peninsula, Crystal Crescent Beach PP. This was the only one I saw on a three hour hike yesterday. Highlight #11 is a nice open grouping of Dragon's Mouth Orchid. Usually these guys grow in groups of two and three and are surrounded by other vegetation. I found another Black-backed Woodpecker this morning at Mount Uniacke Estate. The bird was in shade, as usual, and crying. It's quite the peculiar sound to this human's ear but I'm sure it means plenty to the other members of his family. Most bird books don't mention this contact/foraging behaviour. A Polyphemus Moth was on our porch this morning. I immediately boxed it since the jays come around early to clean out the moths around the porch light. The "eyes" of the moth are a supposed deterrent to predators(so thinks the moth) but I doubt it will stop a jay and I wasn't going to take the chance. Tonight with the porch light off it will leave. The last photo in this set is a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, always a great photographic subject. As always, jump in if I've made any identification errors. Hans http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights6.html ________________________________________________________________________________________________ When viewing images tap F11 or View Full Screen and use the navigation buttons on my website ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hans Toom Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada E-mail: htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca Migration Count: http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html Nature Website: http://hanstoom.com ________________________________________________________________________________________________ --Boundary_(ID_L8t1FepGLGfB4pDm39r0AA) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's a bunch of photos from the last two days, Highlights #6 to 20. Highlight #8 is a plant we can't identify. It's tiny, perhaps 25mm high, and grows on the wind swept coastal barrens of the Pennant Peninsula, Crystal Crescent Beach PP. This was the only one I saw on a three hour hike yesterday.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Highlight #11 is a nice open grouping of Dragon's Mouth Orchid. Usually these guys grow in groups of two and three and are surrounded by other vegetation.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I found another Black-backed Woodpecker this morning at Mount Uniacke Estate. The bird was in shade, as usual, and crying. It's quite the peculiar sound to this human's ear but I'm sure it means plenty to the other members of his family. Most bird books don't mention this contact/foraging behaviour.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A Polyphemus Moth was on our porch this morning. I immediately boxed it since the jays come around early to clean out the moths around the porch light. The "eyes" of the moth are a supposed deterrent to predators(so thinks the moth) but I doubt it will stop a jay and I wasn't going to take the chance. Tonight with the porch light off it will leave.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The last photo in this set is a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, always a great photographic subject.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As always, jump in if I've made any identification errors.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hans</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights6.html">http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights6.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>When viewing images tap F11 or View Full Screen and use the navigation buttons on my website<BR>________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>Hans Toom<BR>Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR>E-mail: <A href="mailto:htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca">htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca</A><BR>Migration Count: <A href="http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html">http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html</A><BR>Nature Website: http://hanstoom.com <BR>________________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_L8t1FepGLGfB4pDm39r0AA)--
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