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Azure Kingfisher

Black Oystercatcher eating an Anthopleura elegantissima (Aggregating Anemone), although there are plenty of limpets and mussels on these rocks.

Unsure of morel type - found in reddish colored wood chips. Gorgeous and our first morels! Made a little bit of noise about the first ones spotted!!! Happy spring!!!

Stalk hollow, 8 cm long, < 1 cm thick, cap 2 cm wide. Pleasant odor. Forest has mixed conifers, madrone, ericaceous understory.

I was excited to see a Red-throated Loon!

duller UV reaction that other specimens I have collected

No noticeable stipe. ID confirmed be sequencing

At the base of a large fir tree in Banner Forest. Made a delicious soup

A pair of Black Oystercatchers were on the beach during the minus tide. This one was foraging, the other had her beak tucked under her wing for a nap.

A male Purple Martin paused on the pier railing below the PTMSC nest boxes. I counted 11 flying above the pier and perching or entering the boxes.

Chasing Steller’s Jays and robins

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Short tail. Small - quail sized. Brown and streaked.

Grey clavarioid fungus growing from poor mossy soil with Geoglossum and Clavaria. Stipe opaquely nattered, head with a less fibrous, more uniformly grey look.

UVF 365 nm = blue petals, bright yellow pollen

Habitat: Mixed conifer forest
Substrate: Duff and well-rotted wood
Notes: Woody flesh and pointed tips make me think Lentaria

Habitat: Conifer forest
Substrate: Duff
Notes: Small flat-topped vaguely translucent off-white club.

Habitat: Old-growth conifer forest
Substrate: soil
Notes: Pink fruit with dark pink branch tips