Any good (mushroom) finds lately?

[jerkin'm]

Hit it again today...plucked some of what I am pretty sure are Blewit's again. Going to do a spore print but everything I can find on lookalikes leans heavily towards these being the real deal...got some hedgehogs, chickens, few straggler chanterelles, first toothy of the year too...a couple surpises too that I am gonna hold out on for a little while..

[Stick in Mud]

Nice haul!

I'm jealous....in my little walk last night, I found very, very, very few mushrooms of any variety, much less good tastin' ones.

[jerkin'm]

From the info I have gathered from others more "in the know" looks like they aren't Blewits...dang...

[Stick in Mud]

The chickens sure were clucking today...found a ton of them. Otherwise, the woods were almost completely devoid of fungi. Found two old russulas and two LBM's.

When is it supposed to rain?!?

[jerkin'm]

KA BOOM!!!!! Sorry, that was for Matt ....

[Stick in Mud]

So the other cluckers are out. I know what I'll be doing next week.

[Matt Breuer]

Kaboom felt, jerkin... Lion's and chickens and hens, oh my!

[jerkin'm]

Sweet looking basket full man! Those are some dark hens.... I couldn't believe they were out already.... I saw some recent emergers on Wednesday, waaaay ahead of schedule.... Hopefully they don't dry up and stop growing again this year ....

[Matt Breuer]

Told my mother-in-law I needed a giant basket for picking COW, and hopefully some HOW as well. Got the basket on Wed., filled 'er up on Sat.! I'm giving all props to the giant meadow basket...

They look dark due to HDR.

One of my guides was with, and I think I got him hooked on fall mushrooms. He's not a fan of summer picking, but he loved this quick trip!

[Stick in Mud]

Hard to imagine NOT liking a trip with that basketful.

[JP Z]

Nice Haul Fellas! I didn't get out in the woods around here but with the forecast calling for a wee bit of rain I might have to hit it this week sometime.

[Stick in Mud]

Things I found in the woods today:

1) Baby hen (first of season)

2) Some indecent and obviously male mushrooms (maybe honey mushrooms or gymnopilus?...spore print in process)

3) A full, unopened bottle of Brazilian cachaca and a candle, both in a flower pot base. Hope I didn't mess up anyone's seance... (maybe you, Pushbutton?)

[Cicada]

My first Chicken of the Woods of the year found yesterday in Maplewood State Park

Wild grapes found yesterday too in Maplewood State Park.

High bush cranberries found in Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge.

[Stick in Mud]

Well the spore print confirms that it's NOT a honey mushroom (a bit early for those, at least in my experience).

Best I can tell is that it's a gymnopilus, a first for me.

[Connan]

Can anyone identify these? Found in the Keweenaw,MI.

[Stick in Mud]

The second looks like an amanita muscaria. Don't eat that one.

The first one MIGHT be a honey mushroom. But they're tough to identify without a spore print, a view of the gills, growth on wood, and white flesh. They can taste good, but if you misidentify them, you could die.

[Stick in Mud]

Any of y'all ever eat an entoloma abortivum? I've read very mixed reviews...

I am nearly positive I found a pile of them today...I'm not going to eat them, but the next time I find one, I might give it a try.

[JP Z]

Stick,

I've had them pickled. Were pretty good. But what isn't good when it's pickled?? Sorry I couldn't help more.

[jerkin'm]

Few pics from the last couple days...not sure what the alien probe looking shrooms are...

[JP Z]

Awesome picts! I think those are wonderful little probes of death........seriously though eating them would be a bad time.

[NoWiser]

Nice finds, Jerkin'm!! Are you finding these in the metro or farther north? I've been so busy I haven't made it out lately, but didn't think I was missing much with how dry it has been. I'm thinking I may have to check out my hen trees tomorrow, though! Looks like the kiddos are having a blast!

[jerkin'm]

They are all from fairly close to the metro, slightly North, or was it South????... My boys were ready to pass out from the humidity yesterday but always love finding them...

[Stick in Mud]

Yup, the hens are cluckin'. I found a handful yesterday myself, all in new spots.

[JP Z]

I think I need to cross hens off my list of first finds this fall/summer. Might have to hit the woods this weekend I'm thinking. And heck they are even talking rain this weekend which should help.

[Jim Uran]

My interest in locating edibles got the best of me in the last few weeks! Although I haven't been successful in finding anythying other than Lobsters, it is still a great way to kill some time, and get out and have a good time in the woods! Still haven't found any chikens or hens, but I've been looking I think it has rained maybe once in the last few weeks which sucks, but regardless, I'm officially hooked!