Monday in Nature October 10, 2016

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p>Good Morning,<br>

We are nature photographers and probably consider ourselves, to some extent, to be naturalists. Some contributors to this forum have formal training and others are self taught so some degree. Many of us follow in the footsteps of amateur naturalists from across the ages. Imagine their work if they had cameras. But then we might not have the beautiful illustrations of flora and fauna drawn with such painstaking care.</p>

<p>Detailed notes and drawings, with preserved samples were the documents of the day in the early 1800's. One naturalist, Thomas Lea, lived in Cincinnati at that time and he studied mushrooms. He collected in the area that is now a large city, but his world was quite different. He collected 280 species with descriptive notes. The collection was an incredible contribution to science and eventually found its way to the hands of mycologist Rev. Berkeley. To honor Lea and his work, Berkeley named a mushroom for him, <em>Mycena leaiana</em>.</p>

<p>If Lea had a camera he surely would have captured the incredible colors and features that make this one of the most recognizable mushrooms in the woodlands. We have cameras. We're lucky.</p>

<p>We can all envision having coffee on Wednesday with Philip Greenspun. See Casual Conversations. But, for now we'll salute those amateur naturalists with great nature photography, and a cup of coffee. After all, it's Monday in Nature.</p><div></div>

[gordonjb]

<p>...and here is another mushroom, a group of black trumpets (<em> Craterellus fallax ).</em><br>

Despite having had a much hotter and dryer summer than usual, there has been a big upswing in the number of mushrooms in my forest this autumn and these chanterelles are showing up everywhere.<br>

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[Bill J Boyd]

<p><strong>American White Pelican</strong>...</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Early morning with the Lensbaby</p><div></div>

[tholte]

<p>Trees in fog</p><div></div>

[ronald_duren]

<p>Last week I found this Ailanthus Webworm Moth in the Bronx, NY.</p><div></div>

[biomed]

<p>During a foggy morning, water drops around a flower.</p>

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[sallymack]

Yesterday morning I discovered a few <i>Archaea</i> formations that have not been bulldozed. They're 1/2 mile or so from where the large "colonies" (my word) were, very small, and very scattered. Whether they'll be bulldozed or not is a moot point since the entire area is due to be "reintroduced to tidal influence" (flooded).<br><br>

In the photo, the small, rounded knobs are <i>Archaea</i>, the orange dampness from water. There was no other evidence of dampness, no other colors in the area. The whole area was white, glittering in the sunshine.<div></div>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>On a windy cloudy fall day, a little rewind to last month, a late summer hibiscus in the sun.</p><div></div>

[fgorga]

<p>The photo of the black trumpets is exquisite.</p>

<p>Here is my contribution for the week:</p>

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[RickDB]

<p>A cluster of tiny mushrooms (<em>Coprinellus disseminatus</em> I think - some older ones had become quite inky). Six stacked images 5D4 + EF 100m f/2.8L IS + 12 mm extension tube + EF1.4xIII.<br>

Note, the 1.4x telextender does not fit the lens without the extension tube and does not show up in the EXIF data.</p><div></div>

[User_6502147]

<p>These are from my recent travel to Alaska.</p>

<p>Les</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Juvenile black skimmer (<em>Rynchops niger</em>) in action. The feather on the head is still gray, hasn't turned into black for adults.</p><div></div>

[Miha]

<p>Snake © in a terrarium.</p><div></div>

[bing_huey1]

<p>seeds being dispersed by an Epilobium</p><div></div>

[MarcelRomviel]

A small visitor<div></div>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Big Buck Poses</strong></p>

<p><a title="Big Buck Poses" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8396/30017129471_6ac16f15e0_c.jpg" alt="Big Buck Poses" width="800" height="640" /></a></p>

[paul_de_ley]

<p>Great Purple Hairstreak in Granite Mountains Reserve, heart of the mojave desert. Caught in pixels three weeks ago (the past two mondays were gone before I knew it).</p>

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[funkag]

<p>An unusual light-colored specimen of Allegheny Glade Gentian, a (since disputed) variation of <em>Gentiana saponaria (var. allegheniensis</em>) that grows in a couple of places in far southern Pennsylvania. Otto Jennings identified it back in the 1940's. There are only a couple of places where it was found in his time, and I can only find it one of locations now. </p><div></div>

[Mary Doo]

<p>Saw a mushroom with a slug. Is it edible (I mean the mushroom)?</p><div></div>

[paul_de_ley]

<p>Mary it looks like <em>A. muscaria</em> var. <em>formosa</em> aka the yellow-orange Fly Agaric mushroom. For us it's of course poisonous but slugs aren't necessarily affected, some species love eating it while others reportedly avoid it.</p>

[Nick D.]

<p>Winter coming.<br>

<img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PeOMuhNL_EU/V_xIXT3dBkI/AAAAAAAABoc/jArKSAeOoZEwiFLv-vg6iJKrq4xeJjHswCLcB/s1600/Winter%2Bcoming.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="952" /></p>

[Mary Doo]

<p>Thanks Paul. I have quite a lot of mushrooms in my backyard and I won't dare to eat them. Glad the slug could have it.</p>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>I'm reminded of an old Punch cartoon, in which an archetypal cave man type is walking past an array of dead bodies, and on a stone tablet writing "Amanita Muscaria - not edible."</p>

[Tuhin]

<p>Natural formations in soil </p><div></div>