Mushroom Nature Study
Spring is such a fun time for studying mushrooms! It’s been raining a lot around here and a quick trip around the yard led to six different types of mushrooms found in about five minutes time yesterday.
Towards evening, we headed to a spot on the farm where leftover hay has been decomposing. What treasures we found there!
If you’ve never taken a mushroom walk, now is a great time to do it! Damp ground, decomposing logs, old leaf piles, and dung piles are great places to look.
1Candace
wrote on 8 May 2009 at 7:04
Thanks, Cindy! I was hoping you’d send me something for the carnival!!
I love all your pics of the mushrooms!
2Jane
wrote on 8 May 2009 at 19:30
I think I’ll take the kids on a mushroom walk tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration!
3Dana
wrote on 11 May 2009 at 15:02
What a lot of great mushrooms! You might check out our post about mushrooms from August: http://alexml.blogspot.com/2008/08/outdoor-chalenge-26-insects.html. We found some great ones and made spore prints!
4{ jamie }
wrote on 18 May 2009 at 7:15
We’ve been having some mushrooms pop up around here, too, but we haven’t taken the time to study them. Next time I notice some, we’ll have to do that. Thanks for sharing your post. ♥