September 15, 2023

We went to the farm and did weekly chores. After mowing and weed whacking, we blazed a new trail which wound around from the front and followed along a new waterway we found that meets the waterway from the south through to the creek. We made a trail and connected it to chanterelle trail and then made it about half way to the north trail. We used loppers. As we culled these trees, we laid them down along the edge of the trail. We laid them perpendicular to the water flow to begin to build up a berm along the outside of paths. Where we left off, it was still really very dense with tiny light-starved trees.

We found multiple types of mushrooms. When we pulled in we found large red and yellow boletes. We have narrowed these down to several possibilities to identify. We need further testing and data but we enjoy looking at them for now and leaving them alone.

Either boletus sensiblis, hortiboletus rubellus or boletus subvelutipes. Photo credit: Chris Okay 👍🏼
The top of the unidentified bolete.
Hygrocybe tops found along bottom edge of clearing.
Underside with gills of waxy cap.
The second time we have found a small puffball mushroom along the driveway up on top of the hill.
Yellow necked caterpillar, Datana ministra. A moth in the family Notodontidae. Found along the new path we made along the south west end of property near the power lines.
We saw many mosses and ferns along the edge of the waterway.
Boletes popping up, Chris’ foot is pointing at another beginning to push through the layer of pine needles.
Animal dens in the stumpery.

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