Another gully on Unit 55 Part I
Spent another afternoon on the grasslands. Such a beautiful day out. In fact I found enough interesting stuff to save some for tomorrow’s post 🙂
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For most of the afternoon, I was down in the dry creek bed. I love seeing the different layers of the soil.
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Mushrooms always have been amazing to me, pushing up through the soil above them.
This was a fairly large mushroom. It was as big my hand. And it was up high on the embankment so I had to grab onto small trees and plants to get up there. I slid back down on bed of leaves. Wheee!
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This thallose liverwort is fairly common and easy to spot.
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Never get tire of these shelf fungi.
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Hard to see, but there is what appears like mouse droppings but is really a fungus. It is a type of fungus fruiting body called a lirella.
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Orange gilled mushroom.
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This was cool shaped rock. Sorta looks a dinosaur head with two horns.
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Petrified wood.
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This petrified wood was interesting because it was smooth. Not sure I had ever noticed any smooth ones at the grasslands before.
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This is a cool lichen that you can find in the open prairie. It is called Yellow Scale (Psora icterica).
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Lots of raccoon tracks today. Soil was still fairly damp.
I would never have noticed the mouse droppings. And i love critter tracks.
What a day!!