Feathers
It was cloudy all day, but not bad out with no wind.
These fungi are rock hard.
They are a polypore type.
They each had a hole in the top and you can see the other tiny insect holes too.
Every time I turn over a branch and find fungus, it like finding treasure. And when the digestive enzymes are there it is like liquid gold. 🙂
The Leucodon julaceus stands up straight when wet. Looks like a miniature forest.
The lichens like the dampness too!
I thought these hackberry roots were cool. This area gets washed a lot when there is heavy rain.
This leafy liverwort is very tiny. The individual leaves are probably about 1 mm.
First I see these feathers. I am not sure who they belonged too.
Then about 200 some feet later I come across more. Not sure if the feathers above belong to the same species.
Then I find more!
So I laid them all out. They belong to a meadowlark. I lean to an Eastern Meadowlark, but Western Meadowlark is very similar. The 3 on the left are tail feathers. The yellow tipped ones would be belly and breast. The bottom 4 are flank feathers.
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Thanks for mentioning my blog! Digestive enzymes look like condensation on merengue. Yum??
Im impressed you figure out who the feathers belonged to. Thanks
Claire, Thanks for inspiring me to make a meringue pie.