We're back from the woods. I'm having trouble remembering how to type. At the marsh I startled three species of heron all at once: great blue heron, night heron and green heron. We saw lots of cute little black bats, tiny furry flying cousins to Bat-boy. And we saw a hawk moth for the first time. It looked like this image stolen from butterfliesandmoths.org except the flowers were tiger lillies.
Welcome back to the uncanny valley.
That Bob Moul image looks like fur photoshopped onto a shrimp on Worth1000.com.
I say bullshit to that moth sighting, Sally & George just got bored and made crazy-assed insects out of pipe cleaners.
No, those are real, Hummingbird Clearwing moths.
Here's one I had in Prospect Park...
You don't see them?
WOW.
Never ever.
They look alarmingly gigantic.
Like alarmingly gigantic shrimp.
Wow, nice photo Alex! I thought the one we saw was a hummingbird at first, but it was too small. I'd heard of the hawkmoths, but I thought they were so exotic it never ocurred to me we'd see one. GVB knew right away what it was. The crimson colour was pretty prominent. The shrimpy aspect was less pronounced, but it sure did look fuzzy. Also it made a big buzzing noise like a hummingbird or (sorry L.M.) a big bumble bee.
Oh, maybe then I have seen one and thought it was a small hummingbird ...or flying shrimp. Or a large motherfucking mutant bee.
I think there's one directly behind your head all the time.
I've obviously been paying too much attention, for way too long, to the cartoon anvil hovering above my head.
anvil moth
I badly want to see a hawkmoth. Sarah saw one in the garden a while back, so they do live in toronto. I did see a hummingbird at about 9000 feet in the bugaboos.
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We're back from the woods. I'm having trouble remembering how to type. At the marsh I startled three species of heron all at once: great blue heron, night heron and green heron. We saw lots of cute little black bats, tiny furry flying cousins to Bat-boy. And we saw a hawk moth for the first time. It looked like this image stolen from butterfliesandmoths.org except the flowers were tiger lillies.
- sally mckay 7-31-2008 11:35 pm
Welcome back to the uncanny valley.
That Bob Moul image looks like fur photoshopped onto a shrimp on Worth1000.com.
- tom moody 7-31-2008 11:40 pm
I say bullshit to that moth sighting, Sally & George just got bored and made crazy-assed insects out of pipe cleaners.
- L.M. 7-31-2008 11:43 pm
No, those are real, Hummingbird Clearwing moths.
Here's one I had in Prospect Park...
You don't see them?
- alex 8-01-2008 2:18 am
WOW. Never ever. They look alarmingly gigantic.
- L.M. 8-01-2008 2:24 am
Like alarmingly gigantic shrimp.
- tom moody 8-01-2008 2:31 am
Wow, nice photo Alex! I thought the one we saw was a hummingbird at first, but it was too small. I'd heard of the hawkmoths, but I thought they were so exotic it never ocurred to me we'd see one. GVB knew right away what it was. The crimson colour was pretty prominent. The shrimpy aspect was less pronounced, but it sure did look fuzzy. Also it made a big buzzing noise like a hummingbird or (sorry L.M.) a big bumble bee.
- sally mckay 8-01-2008 2:38 am
Oh, maybe then I have seen one and thought it was a small hummingbird ...or flying shrimp. Or a large motherfucking mutant bee.
- L.M. 8-01-2008 2:44 am
I think there's one directly behind your head all the time.
- alex 8-01-2008 2:53 am
I've obviously been paying too much attention, for way too long, to the cartoon anvil hovering above my head.
- L.M. 8-01-2008 2:55 am
anvil moth
- sally mckay 8-01-2008 3:31 am
I badly want to see a hawkmoth. Sarah saw one in the garden a while back, so they do live in toronto. I did see a hummingbird at about 9000 feet in the bugaboos.
- rob (guest) 8-15-2008 5:38 am