[NatureNS] Nature Notes and One Identification Query

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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'&gt;Highlight #11 is a 
Definitely a Bake Apple or Cloud Berry
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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
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