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Hi there,
What an enchanting description of your evening at Pond
Cove! I wish I had been there. I rarely see fireflies now: I
remember when I was a child in Winnipeg, we used to see so many in
the summer at the cabin in the Whiteshell, and at Lake of the
Woods. In recent years, my most memorable encounter with fireflies
was during a Nature Nova Scotia conference - June of 1998, I think it
was. We were on a night-time Owl Prowl led by Randy Lauff in Beaver
Mountain Provincial Park. We didn't find any owls, but we ran into
a wonderful display of dozens and dozens of fireflies dancing over a
wet meadow. It more than made up for not hearing owls!
I mentioned this thread to my brother, who was able to
report that he has seen a single Firefly at my parents' home in
Bedford about ten days ago, and again on Saturday night. That seems
to be a typical sighting for us these days.
Does anyone know if Fireflies have really declined, or are
we all just being nostalgic?
Cheers,
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
At 12:00 PM 13/07/2008, Laura Tituswrote:
>Hi,
>
>I tried sending the picture of the slug to Nature NS yesterday but I
>don't believe it went through, nor did another message with attached
>pictures. Not sure why. On Friday evening it was so spectacularly
>beautiful on Brier Island and nature was at its finest. What a
>wonderful sunset we had, and I was on Pond Cove beach at the time
>and got some great pictures. The black throrated greens were
>singing, also the common yellowthroat and white throated sparrows.
>And a very special treat was seeing fireflies. I, nor had anyone
>else present, ever heard of fireflies being on Brier Island. I know
>there are some on Long Island. Such amazing critters to watch as
>they flit about in their luminescent coverings. Have any of you
>Nature NS members who visit Brier Island ever seen fireflies here before?
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