Light
African Spur Tortoise / Geochelone sulcata
Milbert's Tortoise Shell / Aglais milberti
Yellow Columbine / Aquilegia flavescens
Penstemon procerus
Glowing in the dark
Unexpected addition
Little fungi family
Poultry barn
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Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
Spring is here!
Mountain Bluebird
Winter
Get well, Jim (Garnite)!
American Kestrel / Falco sparverius
Mountain Bluebird / Sialia currucoides
Bluebird of happiness
In the rain and hail
Slime Mold / Stemonitis axifera
Harvest is done
Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Water Smartweed / Polygonum amphibium
Just for the record
Slime mold on moss
Underside of Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus
Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
After a long, long wait
Blowing in the wind
A huddle of shrooms
Pretty little lady
Split gill fungi / Schizophyllum commune?
Colour on the pond
Beautiful evening light
OK, it's a start
Need to eat your greens
Great Gray Owl with prey
Evening Grosbeak female
Brewer's Blackbird
Tiny and opaque
Textured
The magic of the woods
Disintegration
Hidden
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Storm-chaser
Coral Fungus
Bokeh shower
The Sickener / Russula emetica
Black Cup Fungus / Plectania melastoma
Spectacular
Northern Gentian
Little beauty
Rattlesnake Plantain Orchid / Goodyera repens
Saddle fungus
Slime mold
Blue
Comb Tooth / Hericium coralloides
Slime mold
Eyelash fungus
A tight little community
Overlapping - and, oh, so temporary
Eastern Kingbird
Tiny Spotted Coralroot flower
Young Red-winged Blackbird
Parry's Townsendia / Townsendia parryi
One-sided Wintergreen
Coral fungus
Bog Candle
Eyelash fungus / Scutellinia scutellata
Deep in the forest
Mushroom in the ditch
Blue-eyed Grass
Mr. and Mrs.
Le Conte's Sparrow
Red Clover
Silver slippers for a princess
Lodgepole Pine
Mayfly
Size doesn't matter
Wolf Lichen
Evening Grosbeak
Yellow Bells
Mountain Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird pair
Pretty little lady
We saw a Sora
Simplicity
Mountain Bluebird
Evening Grosbeak
Unidentified
Female Evening Grosbeak
Before the end
The beauty of winter
Singing his pretty little heart out
Our Alberta skies
A rollercoaster mushroom
American Kestrel
European Starling
Golf, anyone?
Perfection, deep in the forest
Cabbage White Butterfly
Duo
Shine
Wilson's Snipe
Rare Spotted Coralroot
I'm still drooling : )
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Earthstar
A less-than-sharp macro of a little Earthstar fungus. In reality, it was maybe an inch and a half across. These are such fun to find, so different from a regular mushroom. Found this one at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park on September 10th. Usually, when I find these, they are sitting loose on leaf litter. Our fungi season is over for this year, so now have to wait another 10 months or so for the next season : (
"The outer, leathery wall (peridium) splits open into the rays of a star, but the rays fold down into "legs" that support the spherical spore case that sits on a short stalk or pedicel. The rays are firmly attached to a clump of mycelium and leaf debris." From waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0504.
If you are interested and have the time, this is a very short, time-released video showing how an Earthstar works.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY6mwnRPiRU
"Time lapse Earthstar fungi splitting open and then rising off the forest floor.
It raises itself up so that the puff-ball is above the leaf litter and gets a better chance of being struck by raindrops which expels its spores."
Filmed by Neil Bromhall
copyright www.complete-gardens.co.uk
"The outer, leathery wall (peridium) splits open into the rays of a star, but the rays fold down into "legs" that support the spherical spore case that sits on a short stalk or pedicel. The rays are firmly attached to a clump of mycelium and leaf debris." From waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0504.
If you are interested and have the time, this is a very short, time-released video showing how an Earthstar works.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY6mwnRPiRU
"Time lapse Earthstar fungi splitting open and then rising off the forest floor.
It raises itself up so that the puff-ball is above the leaf litter and gets a better chance of being struck by raindrops which expels its spores."
Filmed by Neil Bromhall
copyright www.complete-gardens.co.uk
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