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<a href="../20 for sure baked apple i have 3 quarts of them here to make pie's. they are almost gone here now. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Hiltz" <birddog@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Nature Notes and One Identification Query > 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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