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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Highlight #11 is a Definitely a Bake Apple or Cloud Berry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Drope" <heather.drope@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Nature Notes and One Identification Query > 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> > Send reply to: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > > 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 > _______________________________________________________________________ > _________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________________________________ > _________________________
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