Our leader for fungi walks, Karel Bergmann
Mushroom growing on top of a tall tree stump
Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria
Highlight of my day - Fly agaric / Amanita muscari…
Bolete
Old log cabin/barn seen through the trees
Kananaskis on a mixed-weather day
September snow in Kananaskis
Late September in Kananaskis, 2019
A favourite view in Kananaskis
Amanita muscaria, with insects (mosquitoes?)
Brown Cup & Golden Pluteus / Pluteus chrysophlebiu…
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis, Alberta
Buller Pond, Kananaskis
Hooded False Morel / Gyromitra infula – poisonous
Puffballs on a rotting log
Honey Mushrooms / Armillaria mellea
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond
Kananaskis 'winter'
Wedge Pond in fading fall colours
Barrier Lake, Kananaskis
Kananaskis
Bighorn Sheep licking salt off the highway
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis
Mold on a fungus?
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Mushroom growing on a log
Yellow mushroom
Fungus
Mushroom cluster
Fungus
Large, white mushrooms
Mushrooms
Spectacular Kananaskis valley
Another drive-by shot in Kananaskis
Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria
Amanita muscaria
Bolete
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Pholiota destruens fungus on cut end of a log
Slime mold, Pringle Mt forest walk
Red Baneberry
Afternoon trip to the mountains
Fungus
Mountain Death Camas / Zigadenus elegans
Fungi on a tree stump
White Admiral
Fungus guttation droplets
Treasures of the Ghost River forest - a little bi…
Lichen, Ghost River forest
Fungi in the Ghost River forest
Kananaskis, through the windshield
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Barred Owl in FCPP - from the archives
Day 12, male Firefly, probably in genus Photinus,…
Day 9, Hoof Fungus, Tadoussac
Red barn through the fog
Day 6, part of Tadoussac, seen from up on the clif…
Day 6, Hotel Tadoussac, Quebec
Beauty of winter (well, late fall)
Day 3, Dryad's Saddle (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Forgetmenot Pond, Elbow Falls Trail
Our majestic mountains
Living on the edge
A spider's creation
Onnia triquetra (??) and Blue Stain
Let the light shine in
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Beginning to look like fall
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Spruce Grouse / Falcipennis canadensis
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Bow Lake on a cloudy day
Common Raven at Bow Lake
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Beautiful Peyto Lake
Friends at Bow Lake
On the way home from Cartwright bio-blitz
On the way home from Cartwrights' land
Western Wood Lily
Clark's Nutcracker / Nucifraga columbiana
A favourite view, Waterton Lakes National Park
Fungus (Dryad's Saddle?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
At the base of a tree, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dryad's Saddle Fungus (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
A rural "winter" scene
Evening mist in the rainforest
Ghost Reservoir
Bear Grass, Waterton Lakes National Park
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Great Gray Owl
Winter beauty
Twice the beauty
Bighorn Sheep mom and youngster
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Puffballs and others growing on a tree stump
Another wet, gloomy day today, 10 September 2019. Our temperature is 7C (feels like 5C). It definitely feels like fall. Snow is already being forecast for parts of Alberta. It will soon be time to get all-season tires off and winter tires put on.
The day before yesterday, 8 September 2019, we had such a wonderful four and a half hours, searching for different kinds of fungi in the amazing forest on Rod Handfield's land, SW of Calgary. I think this was our tenth visit - the first one I went on, being on 25 June 2009 - each one resulting in various different species. It was so overwhelming yesterday! You didn't know which direction to face and which mushroom to photograph first. They were everywhere! Such a contrast to our visit on 6 August 2017, when basically there were no mushrooms (other than maybe three), because everywhere had been so very dry.
A day like this can be so exhausting, not just from the walking and fresh air, but also because of all the excitement. The quality of many of my photos is not the best, as the day was very overcast - the last thing one wants when trying to take photos deep in the forest. After leaving Rod's, it did rain. I had driven myself there instead of carpooling, so that I could drive some of the backroads in the area after we had finished. The forecast was for sun and cloud - and I had foolishly believed it. The rain put an end to my plans and I headed for home. I'm so glad I had checked a special little spot near Rod's first thing in the morning, when I got there a bit too early. A few years ago, there was a beautiful display of Fly Agaric / Amanita muscaria mushrooms growing there, but not since then. To my absolute delight, there were maybe half a dozen, in different stages of development. Surprisingly, we didn't come across a single one in Rod's forest this year.
As always, thank you so much, Rod, for so generously allowing us to explore your property. This has been my favourite place to visit for quite a number of years now. We greatly appreciate your kindness - you are always so welcoming, and we learn so much and discover so many beautiful things. Thank you, Karel, for leading the group and helping with identifications. I'm sure at least some of us are anxiously waiting for you to have time, in between leading botany walks, to post some of your photos along with their IDs. Meanwhile, "fungus" has to be sufficient. As usual, any IDs given are always tentative, not 100% confirmed. Rule is, if you are not an expert in mycology, do not pick wild mushrooms to eat!
The day before yesterday, 8 September 2019, we had such a wonderful four and a half hours, searching for different kinds of fungi in the amazing forest on Rod Handfield's land, SW of Calgary. I think this was our tenth visit - the first one I went on, being on 25 June 2009 - each one resulting in various different species. It was so overwhelming yesterday! You didn't know which direction to face and which mushroom to photograph first. They were everywhere! Such a contrast to our visit on 6 August 2017, when basically there were no mushrooms (other than maybe three), because everywhere had been so very dry.
A day like this can be so exhausting, not just from the walking and fresh air, but also because of all the excitement. The quality of many of my photos is not the best, as the day was very overcast - the last thing one wants when trying to take photos deep in the forest. After leaving Rod's, it did rain. I had driven myself there instead of carpooling, so that I could drive some of the backroads in the area after we had finished. The forecast was for sun and cloud - and I had foolishly believed it. The rain put an end to my plans and I headed for home. I'm so glad I had checked a special little spot near Rod's first thing in the morning, when I got there a bit too early. A few years ago, there was a beautiful display of Fly Agaric / Amanita muscaria mushrooms growing there, but not since then. To my absolute delight, there were maybe half a dozen, in different stages of development. Surprisingly, we didn't come across a single one in Rod's forest this year.
As always, thank you so much, Rod, for so generously allowing us to explore your property. This has been my favourite place to visit for quite a number of years now. We greatly appreciate your kindness - you are always so welcoming, and we learn so much and discover so many beautiful things. Thank you, Karel, for leading the group and helping with identifications. I'm sure at least some of us are anxiously waiting for you to have time, in between leading botany walks, to post some of your photos along with their IDs. Meanwhile, "fungus" has to be sufficient. As usual, any IDs given are always tentative, not 100% confirmed. Rule is, if you are not an expert in mycology, do not pick wild mushrooms to eat!
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