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Hi all;
I was in the field with two birders from Michigan yesterday (June 20), and
while they enjoyed a few life birds, I was very pleased to find and
photograph a plant I had not seen before.
The plant is Golden Heather (*Hudsonia ericoides*), and I found a number of
plants growing on a disturbed rock face at Polly's Cove, HRM, one of the
few localities for this species in NS, according to the Flora of NS.
Martine remembers seeing it there before. Always nice to find a life
plant, especially in my favourite NS habitat, the coastal barrens.
Here are two photos I took:
http://flic.kr/p/eSi8bs
http://flic.kr/p/eSicz5
Last week I spotted a tiny moth inside the glass door leading to our
screened-in balcony, and I managed a useable photo. Jim Edsall had this to
say:
"The small orange and dark moth looks like *Pyrausta orphisalis* =96 Orange
Mint Moth. This is not listed from NS in the Maritime Ecozone book but I
notice one report (from northern Cape Breton) on the Moth Photographers
Group <http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/>, and it is reported from
NB and Maine. Our =93micro moths=94 are still not known very well. "
I have placed a photo of the moth here:
http://flic.kr/p/eShXtq
A naturalist needs to look up, down, and sideways it seems, with a camera
close to hand.
Cheers,
Blake
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Blake Maybank <bmaybank@gmail.com>
White's Lake, Nova Scotia
My Blog: *CSI: Life* <http://blakemaybank.com>
Organiser, *Maritimes Nature Travel Club* <http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel>
** <http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel>**
Author, "*Birding Sites of Nova Scotia* <http://tinyurl.com/birdingns>
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