Nature & Wildlife Thread

[Mmathis]

Gorgeous!

 

[Burd]

Saw some strange mushrooms the other day , looks like they last one day.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I hiked again a couple days ago. Good times! Got another hike planned this coming week with my mom.

 

[Colleen_MI]

Fall flowers and pollinators still going strong here.

 

[Marck]

Saw some strange mushrooms the other day , looks like they last one day.

This is the Common Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus). It gives off a foul odor that attracts carrion flies, which in turn help to disperse its spores. It is found worldwide, and appears to be particularly common in the Northern Hemisphere.

 

[Mmathis]

@JBtheExplorer Thank you for sharing — puts me in the Fall mood (my fav season). Here in Louisiana, if we see colors, it’s much later, and it seems that most of the trees around here are the kind that just drop leaves without a lot of color change.

 

[brokensword]

@JBtheExplorer Thank you for sharing — puts me in the Fall mood (my fav season). Here in Louisiana, if we see colors, it’s much later, and it seems that most of the trees around here are the kind that just drop leaves without a lot of color change.

want me to send you some cans of paint and you can go running willy nilly through your neighborhood fixing that problem????

Actually, we 'northers' gots to poke at you 'suthuners' ever chance we can as we KNOW how it goes once the snow flies; you peeps dawn sawth get mighty smirky when that happens!

 

[Burd]

Thursday morn, early, the Grackles were around my house in a huge swarm, hundreds, it was very loud, now I think their gone, they ate all the food on my tray feeder that morn, today I see the juncos are back for the winter.Ehere do the Grackles winter at?

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Hiked along the Root River yesterday. Water levels are low. We've seen very little rain all year.

 

[Mike in Vermont]

Hiked along the Root River yesterday. Water levels are low. We've seen very little rain all year.

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Is that a Salmon or a Brown Trout? I know they both spawn this time of year.

 

[Dimelius]

Is that a Salmon or a Brown Trout? I know they both spawn this time of year.

with degeneration of its chin , i will say salmon.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Is that a Salmon or a Brown Trout? I know they both spawn this time of year.

Sorry, I was gone the past few days so I just saw this.
It's a salmon, I assume. I know very little about fish i.d.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I spent the past few days camping in the Point Beach State Forest. Some of you may remember that I do this every autumn. I went a week later than normal this year. The park was quieter than usual, which was really nice. Of course, I took a lot of photos so I'm sharing some of them here.

Blue-spotted Salamander

Molash Creek

Molash Creek

Molash Creek

Lake Michigan and Molash Creek

Rawley Point Lighthouse

Red squirrel

One of three rain gardens added next to the nature center a few years ago.

Dunes

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Some fall colors around my yard.

 

[Mike in Vermont]

I took this standing on our Vacant land in Florida. The Iguana is actually on the neighbors. Our seawall isn't built yet.