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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-16-2020, 06:23 AM
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Careful examination suggest your right about this. The clincher being the blue beads which are pretty common with ours and are found on our property, and the spots on the AP guidebook Trout Lillies in the AP guidebook. Weird that the park guide book doesn't mention Clintonia borealis.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-15-2020, 02:42 PM
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According to the Algonquin Park plant guide book the name of our Trout Lilly is Erythronium Americanum
It is on the front cover of the guide, with some colonies being 200-300 years old with the same genetic plants.
Yours is probably the Dimpled Trout Lilly, Erythronium umbilicatum
Erythronium umbilicatum - Wikipedia
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-27-2019, 07:40 AM
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I don't think I've ever seen one before. Rick left his bug zapper on overnight by accident, so they rested near the porch. They were hanging out all day. (Moths this big are way too big to get into the bug zapper for execution.) . They were gone in the morning the next day though.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-26-2019, 05:47 PM
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Well, will wonders never cease,
My first Luna Moth
K-1 with DFA 100 macro.
 2019-04-28-Ricks-garden-5 by Norm Head, on Flickr
It says in Wiki that yours reproduce 3 times a year, ours are only reproduce once, you get three times as many chances as we do.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-31-2018, 08:38 AM
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Eastern Comma Moth on Pansies
K-3 and DA 55-300 PLM
ISO 200, ƒ6.3, AV
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-1 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-2 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-3 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-4 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-5 by Norm Head, on Flickr
It really does feel like cheating using this lens. It's 300mm, but it's light and easy to carry, with nice balance on the camera. It's sharp enough for close ups, Pentax engineers seem to have figured out exactly where sharpness becomes an issue and designed to that spec. The speed of AF and quietness i pretty much unmatched. With a bit tighter tolerances in the glass elements, this lens could have even more lights out than it is. But fast accurate auto focus makes up for a lot.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-09-2018, 08:03 AM
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June 19, 2015, I was walking into the Algonquin Park visitors centre, the railings for some reason were covered with moths. Even park staff was coming out for pictures. It only happened once, I decided I needed to go back and find the images for this thread.
 2015-06-19-moths-9 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-8 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-7 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-4 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-3 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-5 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-6 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-1 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-2 by Norm Head, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-19-2016, 08:04 AM
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One from recently...
Some from not so recently
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