Suffering The Benz – Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right

Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there

Godspeed, Sundog. My only regret is that we didn’t find each other sooner …

Let sleeping dogs lie? Not this cockatoo …

High & Mighty

Damn! Turn it up.

Bay polypore (Royoporus badius)

This one stumped me. I watched as it began fruiting on a large maple limb that looks as if it’s been down for a long time. The iNaturalist bot was suggesting they might be oysters, but there were no gills so I figured it was some sort of polypore.

I decided to wait a few days and keep an eye on it. This photo was taken 4 days after the one above, and when I fed it to the iNaturalist bot this time it suggested bay polypore. Bingo (or at least bingo based on my limited knowledge of mycology).

*Underside of bay polypore*, 4 days later. Badius derives from the Latin root badi, meaning reddish brown. As is visible above, the stipe is a dark color, contributing to the other common names “”black footed polypore” or “black leg ploypore.”

In this earlier shot, the stipe hasn’t darkened yet.

Something in the Russula genus?

Found this a short walk from where my boundary line, along with a bunch other mushrooms. I usually don’t find much back there and was surprised to find this, a chanterelle and summer oysters

Someone was nibbling on this one before I showed up …

Orange mycena (Mycena leaiana)

Found on downed tree in south hollow. Apparently has weak antibacterial properties. In the photo below, you can see the orange stain on my hand from handling.

Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor)

Found a beautiful flush of turkey tail while I was walking Sunny near Dove Cottage recently. Took me a bit to figure out if it was the real deal or false turkey tail. It’s real. Might harvest some to make tea …

Pretty sure this third photo is turkey tail, too, but I didn’t check to see if it has pores so I’m not certain. I was more smitten with the way it was surrounded by moss.

Cannibal cockatoo

Turn up the sound to hear Sydney crunch chicken bone in search of marrow.

Sydney’s knock-knock joke.

Life’s a beech

Footage from last spring of a doe munching beech leaves in front of the game cam. I haven’t been putting it out as much as I should.

Caught these deer grazing along the future route of Dove Trail, which I’m building to connect Innisfree with the forest on the western boundary.

Game cam confidential

I set up my game cam in the north hollow a few weeks ago and was eager to retrieve the images on it. Overall, disappointment. Lots of squirrels. A few interesting canine type critters. Raccoons. And my favorite of the bunch: a wild turkey.