It was hard to turn back, but it was getting late. However, different things are always seen on the same path. Why? Because now you have a new side to view or you were looking left when stuff was on the right side. 🙂
For example, these fresh Yellow-bellied Sapsucker holes on a tree were only on one side.
Time to head back. 🙂 Water in the ravine made the decision easy for me to turn back and retrace my path.
How could I have missed these cute little brown mushrooms?
A view from the underside was pretty neat too!
Doesn’t this look like a rusty piece of metal? It was an old shelf fungus on the back side of a log.
An exuvia stuck out of a similar sized hole as the sapsucker holes.
Beautiful veined rock!
I had missed these earlier. Tentative ID is Apioperdon pyriforme (syn: Lycoperdon pyriforme). At least the aforementioned species likes rotting wood.
It was much harder to take a movie without Jeanne. However, I managed. More tomorrow from Feb. 13th!
I’m just amazed at all the moisture y’all have up there. Liverworts, mosses, etc are non existent right now down here. We are still in extreme drought.
Wow, I wonder what shed that exuvium? Some bark gallery beetle maybe?
I wish I knew. I have seen it before. Someday😊
The backside of the mushroom looks iridescent. Love the stream in the ravine. Thanks for the pics
😎 Thanks!
I’m just amazed at all the moisture y’all have up there. Liverworts, mosses, etc are non existent right now down here. We are still in extreme drought.
I guess our 2.18″ for the year would be a flood for you then. We need more too. I hope you get the rain soon.
We have had half that much but it comes in hundredths of a inch up to a tenth with lots of drying wind between.
Sorry to hear about your lack of rain. Fingers crossed you get some soon.
Tiny mushroom are adorable! Good find!
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