Here are a few finds over the weekend for this #mushroommonday
The summer ramaria is growing, sadly I missed the nice edible spring ramaria this year.
This is most likely a young ramaria formosa which some say is edible but the field guides say it cause stomach pain.
Another source says that if you remove the tips then you won't get the stomach upset.
For now I'll just stick to pink coral and crown tipped coral instead of this formosa stuff.
My daughter found some tiny little ink cap mushrooms near the base of a Kentucky Coffee Tree.
She probably found them because she likes collecting the large seed pods from the tree.
These little guys barely last a day before melting and turning to dust which is how they spread their spores.
Here is a large mushroom that appears to be a meadow mushroom.
Some got dried up before they could fully emerge from the ground.
I flipped one over and saw it had nearly the right color of gills for a meadow mushroom but it lacks the ring around the stem and the stem was quite brittle... Now I doubt this is a true meadow mushroom. Its best to catch a true meadow mushroom when its gills are pink so you can easily identify it.
Now for a bonus robin egg shell. My daughter thought it was a toy because of its bright color. I was looking up different types of eggs from local birds and my next stop will be to try and find a redwing blackbird egg as they have a trippy design on them. The only problem is I will get dive bombed if I even go near a nest.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)
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Thanks :-)
Identifying mushrooms is difficult to say the least. I've seen those little ones they die almost as quick as they grow. Nature is fascinating. 👍
Yeah those types of ink caps are out in the morning and gone by the end of the day. There's even a tinier version of them that grows in flower pots and they only last a few hours.
Nice finds. I've seen a few robins eggs about... And there is a nest with four babies under the eaves of my house. We also have baby wrens in one of our bird houses. Fun time of year
Yay you got wrens instead of sparrows. Are they carolinas or house wrens? The robin babies can often get to know you if their nest is nearby where you walk alot. This weekend I saw the osprey again and one of them was sitting on the eggs.
House wrens. Ospreys are really cool. There are two nesting platforms not too far from here. I should see if they are being used this year.
I bet there's a couple nesting right now unless they chose Illinois for warmer temperature.