[ValleyNature] first mushrooms and bats, Coldbrook, King's Co.

[James W. Wolford]

THANKS, MURRAY!   What a great common name for the mushies!   Murray  
lives at Coldbrook, King's Co.  Jim in Wolfville

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Murray Colbo <colbo at eastlink.ca>
> Date: May 11, 2009 9:38:48 PM ADT
> To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford at eastlink.ca>
> Subject: First mushroom and bats
>
> Jim
>
> Don't know if of great interest but saw my first clump of mushrooms  
> in the yard yesterday May 10th. They were Tippler's Bane (an inky- 
> cap), Coprinus atramentarius, which are edible but not if one  
> consumes alcohol, thence the name. They were around a dead caragana  
> stump.  My yard over the season has many species of mushrooms but  
> this is the earliest I have seen the non-bracket types in the yard.
>
> Also bats tonight  at about 9 pm hunting over my pond, even  
> clipping the water surfac occassionally. It was too dark to see  
> them except as shadows over the sky reflection from the pond surface.
>
> Murray at Coldbrook
>
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