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  1. VERY nice photos. Enjoyed your rundown too Dave.
  2. Found these on a dead, down maple. There were oodles of small ones just coming on. I'll go back in a day or two and see if I can get another batch off this log. I cut these into small 'bite sized' pieces, shook them in flour and browned them in butter with just a tad of salt and black pepper to have as a side with burgers. It worked
  3. I found the nicest, freshest flush of oyster mushrooms today. Just had them for dinner. They were SOOOOooooooo good !!!
  4. Hope everyone has time to take advantage of the bounty. Still pretty poor here but we're getting some rain now and maybe things will pick up.
  5. Dave, thanks for that link. That sure looks like the ones I found in '13 (again, none last season). And you are correct. I think I have photos, but I haven't located any of those particular mushrooms yet. I have a small outdoor/photo site and I go through thousands of photos a year.
  6. Sounds great Dave. Take care, have fun!
  7. Excellent photos AND descriptions Dave. Really enjoying this thread.
  8. Thanks John, you were correct about the lobsters as well. We had some rain last night and another shower this morning. I have three or four places I will want to check in the next few days. Thanks for all your help.
  9. Thank you John. I'll look those up. I'm not familiar with lobster mushrooms. I checked a second location that was good in '13. I found lots of very small chanterelles. I'm going to give it a few days and check again. None there last year, but in '13 there were at least a bushel at one time. It's on a steep ridge in White Oak. So steep that there are hardly any leaves at all. Most of what I saw today was smaller than a dime. Hope they grow
  10. A new one to add to my 'wish' list. Thanks!
  11. Maybe Dave, but they were big, beefy chanterelles and really pink. Not a shade of red or orange, pink. I don't know if I still have photos. I'm hoping they show up this year. I did find three last year that I think are the Cantharellus cinnabarinus. They were also thick, heavy meaty mushrooms. There were bright red/orange with very white, very solid flesh. Edit: Found photos of the Cantharellus cinnabarinus. These are NOT chickens.
  12. Thanks DufferinShroomer. I'll definitely be giving my field guides a workout this year.
  13. I did notice that some were the smooth Chanterelles. I think it depends heavily on rain now. I located several good patches in '13. There just were no chanterelles last year. I don't know why. If the hit, I have 4 or 5 places to check for them. One little ridge has a variety of pink ones. Odd color, but unmistakable as chanterelles.
  14. Dave thanks so much for that run down of what I may find in my area. That will be a big help. I'll watch my field guides and pay particular attention to anything I find that might be one of these.
  15. Black Oak mixed with Black (bull) Pine. Some white oak and hickory. Little understory, pretty open woods. Big trees. Area hasn't been timbered for a good while. Same patch that I picked over two bushel from in the '13 season. Nothing last year.
  16. I found a few very small Chanterelles yesterday 6-29-15. Not much more than a handful, I did invite them home for dinner This is already more than I found all year last year after a phenomenal year in '13.
  17. dualsetters ... I certainly agree on leaving the questionable ID's to those with far more experience than me. It's an interesting pursuit though. I'm just beginning and there are lots of mushrooms that are pretty easily identified. I stick to those for serious consideration for the table. Thanks for you great list of criteria. That helps. I did find another Bolete yesterday evening that I think is Boletus Ornatipes. I chewed a small bit, it was not bitter at all. It had a very pleasant taste.
  18. Can we have it wrong? That sucker was BITTER! The yellow one that I have as B. Ornatipes. Thanks John.
  19. Nice photos. Very pretty specimen.
  20. Echoing what John said. Many thanks Dave.
  21. Thank you John and Dave for your invaluable input. I went with B. sensibilis on the reddish one because Roody indicated that bi-color had yellow flesh. Of course you guy wouldn't know it didn't because I somehow forgot to include a cross section photo showing the flesh as white ... very white. Don't know what I did with that photo. I'll see if I still have it. I lose a lot of stuff these days. Dave one red bolete I found last year I think is edible. It was a Frost's bolete. I didn't know that then. It was absolutely beautiful. Deep, rich, red with the webbing on the stype. It was only about the diameter of a quarter. One of the prettiest mushrooms I've ever seen. The quantity of mushrooms in general seems down. I've walked miles just to find a dozen or so so far. I do think the peak of the season is still ahead for Boletes, Chanterells and parasols. I'm still in hopes of finding and positively identifying (and eating) at least one King Bolete.
  22. Very limited results on Friday. Spent some enjoyable time in my field guides after the hunt. Not positive of any of these ID's. Boletus Hortonii? I'm thinking Boletus Sensibilis? This sucker stained blue immediately when bruised. Closest match I could find is Boletus Ornatipes. Even the cap color was yellow though. More yellow than brown.
  23. Some fantastic finds there Dave. Glad to see you're getting off to a good start. I made it out Friday. Not much to show for it. Found two different boletes with yellow pore surfaces, neither edible. Found one very small crinkly topped one that I believe is boletus hortinii.
  24. That bolete is really nice. I'm wanting to go back to where I found the bitter ones and see if I can find any fresh growth that isn't bitter. It's a long hike, I need 4 to 5 hours to make the trip.
  25. I hunted over a mile of hemlock lined stream bed yesterday. I didn't find anything. It looks very promising though I'll take the same hike when we get some rain. It just looks too good not to have mushrooms. I've been out every day for over a week now and have not found one edible mushroom. Day before yesterday I did find some remarkably well preserved Chicken of the Woods from last season. I could still see a bit of orange coloration on them. I'll recheck that black oak stump later as well. Also found some hemlock varnish shelf, maybe Ganoderma tsugae. There was so much red gunk on EVERYTHING it was hard to see the 'varnish'. I don't know if this was spores or erosion of the shelf itself. It was covering the clusters, the log (a downed, dead hemlock) the leaves and neighboring plants!
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