[NatureNS] Nature Notes and One Identification Query

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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:07:41 -0300
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Hi Hans,, great photography and what a nice colony of Dragons Mouth 
orcids... Off the top of my head I would guess that your mystery fruit is 
going to be Bake Apple when it finishes maturing.. And I stand to be 
corrected. Heather Drope

Date sent:	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:52:16 -0300
From:	Hans Toom <Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca>
Subject:	[NatureNS] Nature Notes and One Identification Query
To:	"Naturens@Chebucto.Ns.Ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
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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 Woodpeckerthis 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
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