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**The Nature Moncton field trip visit to the Sussex
Bluff is on today, Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Scroll back to the October 1 edition
for details and map to the meeting place if you may have missed it.
Mother Nature has provided ideal weather conditions. Covid guidelines must be adhered to and only double vaccinated participants attend,
**Jane LeBlanc photographed the cup fungi, Orange Peel Mushroom.
This mushroom can be very common in disturbed areas and appears in groups
usually. This mushroom is classed as an edible but have not personally partaken. Jane photographed it on the Fundy Trail.
**Mushrooms sure are a big item out there right now.
Shannon Inman shares a few photos of some she photographed recently. One is the
Shaggy Mane Mushroom. They are just starting to fruit right now which is
their time. They are an easily identified edible inky mushroom that have to be
used or dried quickly as they simply melt to an inky liquid in a few days in
the wild, except for the stalks. They are tasty if cooked correctly.
A second interesting one Shannon photographed is the Bird’s
Nest Mushroom. These are very small structures and easily overlooked. The
“eggs” within the nest like structure our sacs of spores that will burst when
ripe to shoot out spores which has already happened in some of the examples in
Shannon’s photo. Note the “empty nests”.
A third she photographed is the Red-gilled Cort.
This is a medium-size common mushroom sporting red gills and a brown cap when
fresh. It is not a suggested edible. The spore print is brown.
**Brian Stone photographed a common sparrow, the Song Sparrow, that we soon may not be seeing as much. A few will overwinter with us, possibly like this bird enjoying sunflower chips
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
