Dan McCullough

Walking the woods and brooks of western Massachusetts.

Environmental Educator for 18 years. Taught mycology workshops and researched nesting bird and salamander populations.

Most photos taken the week of posting.

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Cat: Pippin (2007-2026) Rest well little friend, you’re missed. [#PippinStories](https://ecoevo.social/tags/PippinStories )

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Last Notes

2026-04-03 12:32:22 UTC

With two feet + of snow covering everything the last couple months, mushrooms have been hard to come by. But with the rapid melting over the past 10 days these Amber Jelly Rolls [Exidia recisa] have been uncovered and are ready for their flabby closeups.
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi
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2026-04-02 12:42:43 UTC

When spring rolls around I’m always excited to see if past animals will again visit. Sometimes they seem to disappear for seasons on end, especially foxes, coyote, and bobcats. I wonder if they’ve moved to a new territory or perhaps didn’t survive the winter.
So I was quite happy to see Baby Porcupine, who is now a year old, rumbling down the trail and crossing Porcupine Bridge like an old pro. 😊
#PorcupineBridge
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2026-04-01 13:49:46 UTC

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Let’s see the rabbits try to munch those. 😅

2026-04-01 12:39:27 UTC

When I was growing up, my grandmother had a garden where she kept butterfly-attracting plants. In the middle was a birdfeeder.
She had her own set of names for the birds. I heard these names so often that I started to think of them that way. And they weren’t exactly flattering.
House Sparrows were Little Stinkers
Starlings were Crybabies
And Goldfinches were Piggers because they’d sit there and eat all the seed while the other birds had to wait their turns.
Some things don’t change.
#birds
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2026-03-28 13:06:17 UTC

Pippin story #6. She is very missed.
Age 4
Some cats curl up. Pippin would “square up.”
#PippinStories #Caturday
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2026-03-27 13:30:10 UTC

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I was afraid that everything would melt all at once and things would get VERY high. But it’s been pretty gradual.

2026-03-27 12:34:34 UTC

With the melting snow and periodic rain, the brook has nearly reached the hefty carpet of moss that is covering a lot of the fallen tree.
#WoodedStream #Mosstodon #Moss
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2026-03-23 12:45:23 UTC

My Wife: I’ve seen reports that bears are up and about. Time to bring in the feeder.
Me: Seems awfully early.
My Wife: You said that last year.
Me: I did? Ok, after the weekend.
My Wife: That’s EXACTLY what you said last year. And then when did the bear eat our feeder?
Me: Errr… like Monday night I think.
My Wife: No, it was Sunday morning.
Me: We’ll compromise. How about Saturday night?
SATURDAY, 6:30pm
Me: I took the feeder in. See, no bears.
10 minutes later…
#Bears #15SecondsOfFame
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2026-03-22 11:56:36 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-03-08 23:43:40 UTC

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It was supposed to be 52° and we only hit 42°. So not only did I lose an hour but 10°!
Can I get a refund? 😆

2026-03-08 23:10:27 UTC

Sunset over the woods.
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2026-03-07 13:39:55 UTC

Another Pippin story. She is very missed.
When Pippin first came into our lives at 12 weeks old, she came with her own furniture - a cozy kitten mat that she supposedly had commandeered from her 2 brothers. They were inseparable. (She and the mat, not the brothers 🤭.)
For 18 years when she wasn’t on my lap she could be found here.
#Caturday #PippinStories
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2026-03-06 13:32:24 UTC

Psst… we still have a lot of snow.
#FensterFreitag
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2026-03-02 13:31:27 UTC

Caught a bobcat on the trailcam carefully placing its paws in the footprints I had made a couple days before in the deep snow. When it gets to where I turned around, it looks around and decides - nope, not going out there, and turns to go down to the brook.
#15SecondsOfFame #Trailcam #Bobcat
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2026-02-28 13:29:58 UTC

I thought I would share some of Pippin’s stories. She is very missed.
Age 2
Pippin was an innovator in cord management before it was a thing. 😂
She routinely would find the most difficult places to access, twist her little body to fit, and make the craziest places look comfy. When she was done, she’d carefully extract herself, and walk away, never pulling anything that shouldn’t be pulled, or knocking anything over.
#Caturday #PippinStories
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2026-02-23 21:16:55 UTC

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White throated Sparrow from early December!
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2026-02-23 13:31:57 UTC

Nothing like having a happy puppy, err… happy donkey, err… happy deer (?!) running through knee-deep snow to greet you!
#15SecondsOfFame #Trailcam #Deer
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2026-02-19 19:25:07 UTC

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You’ll have to let me know… in another 20 years! 🤭 I have read about sugar maples being planted in other countries, some you wouldn’t expect, with varying degrees of success.

2026-02-17 17:16:25 UTC

For anyone doing #MapleSugaring at home, I got my first sap drips this morning. 39° F / 4° C.
#MapleSyrup

2026-02-16 13:33:48 UTC

*May I have your attention please*
This Red Squirrel built a fort DIRECTLY BELOW THE BIRD FEEDER.
#Squirrels
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2026-02-01 15:37:27 UTC

Pippin crossed the rainbow bridge 💔
I am logging off for a while as I don’t have the focus or energy to respond. Thank you for being an amazing group of people. “See” you all soon.

2026-01-27 13:42:24 UTC

Before and after the storm.
#WoodedStream
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2026-01-26 17:31:05 UTC

About 16 inches of snow here (and still snowing!) Not much to show as everything is a mass of white marshmallows and I am still waiting for the plow. In the meantime enjoy these tracks of “Pancake Squirrel” doing a little circle that included a bellyflop.
That’s all I got.
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2026-01-25 13:36:34 UTC

Apparently there was a break-in at the local House of Pancakes.
#Squirrels
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2026-01-24 21:25:24 UTC

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Makes me miss my hometown in Maine. Great photo!

2026-01-23 13:27:57 UTC

With ~20 inches of snow forecast starting Sunday, today might be the last trip to this spot for a little while.
#WoodedStream
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2026-01-19 13:35:41 UTC

When I rewatch my trailcam videos I occasionally spot something I missed the first time.
Watch our little porcupine. After being startled by something toward the bottom right…
QUILL MODE DEPLOYED
And if you crank the volume you can actually HEAR THE QUILLS going up!
And then she crosses the bridge still powered up. 🤗
(video from Nov. 2025)
#PorcupineBridge #Trailcam #Porcupines #15SecondsOfFame
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2026-01-17 13:27:53 UTC

Pippin moves a little slower these days and getting to her water bowl can take a bit.
So now she has her own “tea” cup.
(Along with her tea table, and let’s face it, her whole tea house.)
#Caturday
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2026-01-16 13:27:10 UTC

Shroom with a view.
#FungiFriday #Mushroom #Fungi #Mushtodon
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2026-01-11 13:36:28 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-09 13:38:14 UTC

I often find myself on old logging roads. They were once wide, straight, alleys in the woods where large equipment crossed, grooving deep furrows, keeping green growth at bay and stomping each stone, leaf, and lichen covered branch out of sight.
Slowly it is being reclaimed. The ruts fill in, the width shrinks, and a new generation of trees begin.
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2026-01-03 13:30:50 UTC

It’s a new year and Pippin has decided it’s finally time to show off her rarely seen white belly fur.
It’s the fluff of legends! 🤭
#Caturday
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2026-01-01 13:28:25 UTC

Important Announcement:
2025 has been eaten.
#Squirrels
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2025-12-27 13:28:25 UTC

This is the look of an 18 year-old cat that just got caught licking a stick of butter on the dining room table.
#Caturday
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2025-12-24 13:45:08 UTC

If you’re traveling this week, remember to stop at all crossings and look both ways before…
None of which the Little Porcupine has to deal with.
#PorcupineBridge #Trailcam #Porcupines
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2025-12-19 18:20:37 UTC

When I got up this morning the brook was still about 75% covered with ice. Then the rain started and the temps are now at 55°F/13°C. You can see the yellowish ice under the surface as melting snow and rain rush over it. Large chunks of ice get dislodged and everything heads downstream.
#WoodedStream
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2025-12-19 13:28:55 UTC

Some mushrooms are tougher than others. This Barometer Earthstar reappeared after the recent snow. Its spore sac is long gone but its leathery “petals” are still in a festive mood.
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi
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2025-12-15 13:31:10 UTC

WANTED
for crimes against birdfeeders
#Birds #Borb
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2025-12-14 13:25:16 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-12-13 13:34:37 UTC

Pippin looking to see if I’m done bringing the laundry up and down the stairs so that she can officially begin her nap.
#Caturday
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2025-12-12 14:11:59 UTC

Before last week’s snow, I was monitoring these Brick Cap mushrooms that were growing out of an old stump.
I took the first photo on 11/17. The second on 11/29.
In 12 days they should have fully come up, opened their caps, and been well on their way to falling apart. But the cold temps had other plans - stunting their growth almost entirely. Their caps changed color, but otherwise, like us, the chilly weather kept them in bed.
[Hypholoma sublateritium]
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi
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2025-12-07 13:25:19 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-12-06 13:26:40 UTC

In her senior years the tortie colors have faded a bit and in the right light she has a gray mane.
But… still a tortie. 🥹
#Caturday
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2025-12-04 15:06:57 UTC

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Yes! Lol. I actually considered that when I posted it. Tim will like it!

2025-12-04 13:28:00 UTC

First snow at the brook.
#WoodedStream
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2025-11-28 13:25:02 UTC

The best way to combat Black Friday?
Yellow Fairy Cups!
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi #Mushtodon
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2025-11-27 13:36:29 UTC

My kind of Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(from 2024)
#Turkeys
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2025-11-21 13:41:36 UTC

Mushrooms can have so many common names that some enthusiasts prefer to rely on scientific names only.
But… scientific names can also be frustrating. The Late Fall Oyster has gone through at least 5 genus changes before they settled on Sarcomyxa serotina…. though some resources will still only refer to it as Panellus serotinus.
So I’ll be over here enjoying my Late Fall Oysters. Or my Olive Oysterlings. Or my Mukitake. Or my Green Oysters.
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi
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2025-11-20 13:33:24 UTC

#Spider #Spiders
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2025-11-16 13:30:01 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-11-14 13:29:36 UTC

If you peek under the cap of a mushroom you’ll most likely find gills or pores. These are key identifiers. But some mushrooms have “teeth.”
The aptly named Hedgehog Mushroom is one of these. Look at all those spiny little projections pointing out!
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi
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2025-11-13 13:29:30 UTC

Mother Porcupine has grown quite large so my wife is planning on widening #PorcupineBridge to accommodate Mom’s… ampleness. 😊 In the meantime, enjoy a large porcupine carefully going across a bridge so she doesn’t get her paws wet. 🥹
#TrailCam #Porcupines #15SecondsOfFame
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2025-11-09 13:36:24 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-11-07 13:56:53 UTC

Continuing the “2 different mushrooms on the same log” theme, we have Funeral Bells and puffballs (a bit past their prime).
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi
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2025-11-03 13:38:00 UTC

One thing I often pay attention to when looking for mushrooms is how 2, or even more, species can share the same branch. Sometime both are fresh, sometimes one is in decline while the other is just starting. Different fungal species can create a chain whereas the wood is decomposed over a long period of time.
Here there are 2 species of mushrooms, False Turkey Tail and Orange Jelly Spot sharing the same dead tree, but thriving in different sections.
#MushroomMonday #Fungi #Mushtodon
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2025-11-02 13:26:05 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-10-31 12:38:38 UTC

May your Halloween be filled with Witches, Ghosts and… BRAINS!!
🧠 Willow Brain [Exidia recisa]
👻 Ghost Pipes [Monotropa uniflora]
🧙🏽‍♀️Witch’s Butter [Tremella mesenterica]
#Halloween #FungiFriday #Plants
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2025-10-28 12:48:52 UTC

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Her patience might have been waning. 😅

2025-10-28 12:32:16 UTC

Bear parade! 🐻 🐻 🐻
The two young ones were certainly taking their time catching up to Mom and ended up creating 3 videos which I stitched together.
#Bears #15SecondsOfFame #Trailcam
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2025-10-27 12:40:03 UTC

Apparently my watersnakes ate well this summer. 😅
#Sculptures #Installation #Art
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2025-10-25 12:27:02 UTC

Pippin decided it was a good time to show everyone her scraggle belly.
#Caturday
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2025-10-24 12:31:40 UTC

Unfortunately, “Deadly Poisonous” mushrooms don’t come with little ☠️ decals. And contrary to some beliefs that they come in bright colors, to warn you of their danger, they can often be white or other drab colors.
But they do have awesome names!
This one has 4 to choose from. Pick your favorite:
Deadly Gallerina
Deadly Skullcaps
Autumn Skullcaps
Funeral Bells
[Galerina marginata]
#FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms
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2025-10-23 12:31:07 UTC

Camofrogged!
#Frogs #Amphibians
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2025-10-19 12:26:44 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-10-18 12:30:42 UTC

With apologies to LOTR, Pippin got her name from when she was a kitten she’d hang upside down, usually by resting on a chair with her belly up and her head hanging down the side of the cushion. She looked like a little bat.
So we named her Pipistrelle, after a species of a very smol bat. That became Pippin.
At 18 she doesn’t quite do the hanging upside down thing anymore but with camera angles we can still reproduce her batlike namesake.
#Caturday
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2025-10-17 12:32:49 UTC

Nothing here but us pretty leaves.
Barometer Earthstar
[Astraeus hygrometricus]
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi #Mushtodon
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2025-10-15 12:33:00 UTC

Last week I was bringing plants inside when I discovered two Red-backed Salamanders hanging out under one of the saucers.
Which isn’t too odd except that one of them was a yellow morph. Of the hundreds I’ve monitored over the years I’d estimate that 60% were the “gray” morph, 40% were the “red” morph, and only a handful were yellow or another color.
I’ve never found a Red and Yellow morph together! I quickly examined both before putting their “roof” back over them.
#Amphibians #Salamanders
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2025-10-12 12:25:40 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-10-10 12:34:14 UTC

Competing with the bright autumn leaves.
Orange Jelly
[Dacrymyces chrysospermus]
#FungiFriday #Mushtodon #Fungi #Mushrooms
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2025-10-07 12:38:00 UTC

My Wife: “My mother wants to get us something special for our anniversary. Any ideas?”
Me:
#Art #Sculpture #Installation
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2025-10-04 12:28:04 UTC

Even at 18 and lots of floof, Pippin doesn’t take up a lot of space. But the space she DOES take up is always in the middle. 😅
#Caturday #Cats
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2025-10-03 12:38:31 UTC

For those of you who have dreamed about combining mushrooms and 19th century fashion, please consider:
Fungal Dress with Leg of Mutton Sleeves.
#Mushrooms #Mushtodon #Fungi #FungiFriday
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2025-10-01 12:33:38 UTC

Off-roading Woolly Bear.
#Insects #Caterpillars
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2025-09-28 20:50:43 UTC

Today was 80° in western MA so we let Pippin decide if she’d like another try going outdoors (the last time, she hid under the bed when we took out her harness 🤭). She did great and her favorite part was going under the deck.
We didn’t really have a plan for that. 😂
#Cats
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2025-09-22 12:32:11 UTC

I get a lot of weird things on my deck. But neon orange mushrooms growing on the tiny amount of detritus that fell in between the cracks of the deck boards? That’s new.
Most likely:
Cinnabar Polypore
[Pycnoporus cinnabarinus]
#MushroomMonday #Mushrooms #Fungi #Mushtodon
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2025-09-21 12:30:08 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-09-19 12:33:59 UTC

Honey Mushrooms are out and about!
#FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mushtodon
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2025-09-18 12:35:35 UTC

Not to be outdone by a juvenile Eastern Gray Fox, looked who showed up in the same exact spot! A juvenile Red Fox. Look at those black booties. 🤗
And what does it treat its viewing audience to? By getting ready to… well, uh, christen the trail. Yeah.
#15SecondsOfFame #Trailcam #Foxes
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2025-09-12 12:37:23 UTC

Found this cute little pumpkin… errr… mushroom on my hike.
Hemlock Varnish Shelf
[Ganoderma tsugae]
#FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms
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2025-09-11 12:36:41 UTC

A Handsome Trig Cricket landed on my sunny laptop screen. Look at those colors, it’s like a children’s painting. 🎨
#insects
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2025-09-05 12:40:27 UTC

Photos were taken 9 months apart. The first is from December and shows a shelf mushroom beginning to grow a second mushroom off itself, looking like a large marshmallow.
The second photo is from this past week and you can see the marshmallow grew into… a Mongolian sheepskin cap. 😄
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi
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2025-09-03 15:58:23 UTC

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Big fan of that one where the water is going down and away. Don’t get to see the “power” of rushing water like this all the time. It’s not just a trickle going off that large!

2025-09-03 12:39:10 UTC

Look who’s back for second breakfast.
#wildlife #porcupines
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2025-09-01 12:38:56 UTC

#Snakes #Snake #Reptiles #SnakesOnMyFirewood
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2025-08-28 15:54:33 UTC

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Baby robin? Looks like a mottled beanbag chair! 😆

2025-08-28 12:38:01 UTC

The Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are doing the Spider-Man meme.
Yes, you read that correctly.
#Birds #SpiderMan
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2025-08-26 12:30:29 UTC

Tiptoe, tiptoe, loooong stretch.
#Birds #15SecondsOfFame #Trailcam
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2025-08-24 00:33:49 UTC

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Here’s a few seconds of Baby Porcupine eating my yard. After a few seconds it decides we all need to see its… backside.
#Porcupines #Wildlife
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2025-08-23 23:38:15 UTC

Baby Porcupine eating my entire yard! Bye yard.
#CritterCallOut

2025-08-22 12:40:06 UTC

The forest’s color palette 🎨
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi #Mushtodon
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2025-08-21 13:46:55 UTC

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Chia Pet Rock

2025-08-20 12:33:38 UTC

Baby Porcupine was out for a daytime adventure! 😊
#15SecondsOfFame #Porcupines #Wildlife
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2025-08-19 13:53:26 UTC

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Lima bean stew?

2025-08-19 12:38:30 UTC

The suspension of disbeleaf.
#WoodedStream #Nature
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2025-08-18 12:37:10 UTC

The following little beasties paid a visit:
1. Ambush Bug stopping for a rest on my knuckle
2. Black Swallowtail caterpillar munching my parsley
3. Pine-tree Spur-Throat Grasshopper hanging out on the stairs
#Insects #Caterpillars
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2025-08-16 12:39:35 UTC

A few weeks ago my 17 year old cat decided it was time to co-opt my tea table.
Since then, I’ve been slowly reclaiming it while she sleeps. My plan is now complete! Muahaha!
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
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2025-08-11 12:34:46 UTC

Me: Can you help me take a picture?
My wife: Is it for Mastodon?
Me: Yes
My wife: Do I have to do anything stupid?
Me: Of course not
My wife: Does it involve a snake?
Me: No
My wife: Do I have to hold something gooey?
Me: Not this time
My wife: It’s not just going to be me showing how tall something is, right?
Me:
#Flowers #Garden #Pollinators #BloomScrolling
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2025-08-10 12:23:43 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-08-08 12:33:43 UTC

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, swing by the top of my driveway for the 7th Annual Potato Festival. Wait, what? Not potatoes? But… if not potato, why potato shaped?
Poison Pigskin Puffballs
[Scleroderma citrinum]
#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Fungi
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2025-08-02 12:43:14 UTC

What annoyed Pippin enough that she had to sit up and peer out the window? (You may remember the correct answer from a few weeks ago.)
A. Battling hummingbirds
B. Prattling chipmunk
C. Rattling kingfisher
D. Nattling woodpecker
(Answer included in Alt-text)
#Caturday #CatsOfTheFediverse
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