Three-toed Woodpecker
Keeping each other company
An attractive little cluster
Milk chocolate curls
Coral fungus
One of few
Fungi family
Flat Topped Coral / Clavariadelphus truncatus
Forest treasures ... Pholiota squarrosa
Shapeless fungi
Coral Fungus
Rough-fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
One day closer to spring
When I used to find fungi
Magical world of the forest
The forest is alive with fungi, lichens and mosses
A little fungi family
Forest refractions on a wet Dandelion : )
Wild Rose in the rain
A forest find
Mustard White butterfly / Pieris oleracea
The Sickener / Russula emetica?
Decorating the base of a tree
Unidentified fungus
Coral Fungus
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
European Skipper
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Canon SX60 'artistry'
Bee on Tall Larkspur / Delphinium exaltatum
Fungus guttation droplets
Purple/Water Avens / Geum rivale
White Admiral
False Solomon's Seal
White Admiral
Fungi on a tree stump
Fungi family - and slime mold?
Purple avens / Geum rivale
Arrow-leaved Coltsfoot / Petasites sagittatus
European Skipper
Purple Avens
Creamy peavine / Lathyrus ochroleucus
Slime Mold
One lone mushroom
Shelf or Bracket Fungus
One of the few seen this year
Gregarious
Backlit gills
Puffballs in the forest
Perfect gills
Design by Mother Nature
Goblet with matching insect
A sight for sore eyes
Backlit
Three-toed Woodpecker
Just a little mushroom
Three-toed Woodpecker
Hiding in the moss
Lighting up the forest
Adult and juvenile Three-toed Woodpeckers
Police Car Moth
Police Car Moth and Skipper
A little Pholiota cluster
One-sided Pyrola / Orthilia secunda
Beetle on Cow Parsnip
Twinflower / Linnaea borealis
Tiny Bishop's Cap seeds
Small, orange butterfly
A splash of colour
Mother Nature at her best
The perfection of Mother Nature
Tennessee Warbler
Forest beauty
Hiding in the moss
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Colourful trio
Forest display
Claspleaf twistedstalk berries
Standing alone
Perfectly textured
Orange Peel Fungus / Aleuria aurantia
It takes a village to raise a child
Rare Three-toed Woodpecker
Beauty beneath
The electric shock look : )
White Admiral
Two of a kind
What the bears love to eat
Mushroom magic
Protected
Black with a touch of green
Hidden
Memories of summer
Standing tall
White gilled
Mushroom
Togetherness
Plain and simple
Each topped with a tiny leaf
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One of my forest finds
Four days ago, 8 August 2015, I decided to drive SW of the city for a while. It was a Saturday, so I thought I would go and check if there were other people parked at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park. I had more or less stopped going into the forest there by myself, especially the last couple of years, knowing that Cougar and Bears can be seen there. All I have seen - so far! - is a Moose on a couple of occasions. The place gives me the creeps, so I usually just walk through the trees closest to the parking lot.
So, this is what I did. Just a minute or two after entering the forest near the trail, I flushed a Grouse, which scared the life out of me. The opposite side of the trail, where I usually find a few mushrooms, had pools of water after the two devastating rain and hail storms that we had very recently, so I couldn't go there. With several cars in the small parking lot, I decided to go just a short way into the park, trying to forget that animals can "smell fear". I did come across a few quite nice mushrooms, but with such a dry, hot summer, this is not going to be a good year for fungi.
The second time my heart started beating really fast was when I was trying to focus on a mushroom and I was aware of a deep, huffing kind of sound coming from right behind me. Turning around, dreading what I might see, I discovered it was just a small Red Squirrel, low down on his/her tree, just a couple of feet away from me. I've never, ever heard a Squirrel make this kind of sound before! Sounded rather like what I imagine a bear might sound like.
Almost back at the edge of the forest, I was happy as can be to hear quite a commotion that I then recognized as being American Three-toed Woodpeckers. There were three of them high up a tree, with at least one of them being a noisy, hungry juvenile that was feeding itself but every now and then would want the adult to feed it. These birds are uncommon year-round in Alberta, so it's always a treat to see them - especially three.
So, this is what I did. Just a minute or two after entering the forest near the trail, I flushed a Grouse, which scared the life out of me. The opposite side of the trail, where I usually find a few mushrooms, had pools of water after the two devastating rain and hail storms that we had very recently, so I couldn't go there. With several cars in the small parking lot, I decided to go just a short way into the park, trying to forget that animals can "smell fear". I did come across a few quite nice mushrooms, but with such a dry, hot summer, this is not going to be a good year for fungi.
The second time my heart started beating really fast was when I was trying to focus on a mushroom and I was aware of a deep, huffing kind of sound coming from right behind me. Turning around, dreading what I might see, I discovered it was just a small Red Squirrel, low down on his/her tree, just a couple of feet away from me. I've never, ever heard a Squirrel make this kind of sound before! Sounded rather like what I imagine a bear might sound like.
Almost back at the edge of the forest, I was happy as can be to hear quite a commotion that I then recognized as being American Three-toed Woodpeckers. There were three of them high up a tree, with at least one of them being a noisy, hungry juvenile that was feeding itself but every now and then would want the adult to feed it. These birds are uncommon year-round in Alberta, so it's always a treat to see them - especially three.
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