Unusual choice of nesting site--a glass ball that broke at the base, allowing egress. Good sized nest.
Adult. Preening while juvenile from further in the orchard called for several minutes.
In olive orchard. Likely same bird from this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108322184
1.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
1.1 Guadalcanal
Mount Austen, one seen in forest, 320 m, photo, 4 August 2013.
Rhagodima cf. nigrocincta
Cincta (cinctus, cinctum) in latin means "surrounded by". So the portmanteau "nigrocincta" can mean "surrounding by black color". This might refer to colors and patterns on the abdomen of this species. Or it may not refer to black patches on some legs which does not form full circle/ring as in R. Annulata.
But these informations are not clear to me as per the description by Henry Meyners Bernard who described the species as Rhax nigrocincta along with Rhax Howesii (currently assigned as Rhagodes melanopygus). Another information I can find is that as per Simon's 1885 description R. annulata has body length of 18mm and as per Bernard's description of R. nigrocincta is around 1.25 to 2 inches. T̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶m̶e̶n̶ ̶w̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶w̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶1̶.̶2̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶1̶.̶5̶ ̶i̶n̶c̶h̶e̶s̶ ̶l̶o̶n̶g̶.̶ (The specimen was just 2 cms long after I re-checked the video where it climbed to my friend's hand. Videograb is attached as last photo.)
Henry Meyners Bernard's 1894 article on the species called "On two new species of Rhax. Journal of Linnean Soicety London" can be read here: https://ww.rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/88759/edition/67942/content?ref=struct
The illustrations on the book has been digitized and uploaded to Wiki Commons over here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhagodima_nigrocincta.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhagodima_nigrocincta_cutted.jpg
Comparing the images above I can see similar black patches on the legs. Also the white moustache pattern has good resemblance on the individual. But I don't see the spurs specified in illustrations.
Note: I am not conforming on the species level identification here. I have just added my notes here for future reference for anybody who wants to take this subject for research.
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About 25 mm long. Matthew, I have emailed you re these.
While doing homework on a bench, this chipmunk jumped on to see what I was doing. I let her take a look but she only got to the search bar and gave up. So I put on some of my chipmunk pictures for her to see. Posed for observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129984459
In wood chip landscaping. Mild mushroom odor and flavor. Cap extremely viscid!
Spores measure
(6.9) 7.2 - 8 (9) × (3.8) 4.1 - 4.7 (4.8) x (3.6) 3.9 - 4.4 (4.5) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.64 - 1.87 (1.9) ; N = 30
Me = 7.7 × 4.4 µm ; Qe = 1.7
8-9 individuals. transients. t73a1 and t64a present in encounter
Sometimes you just gotta mash the shutter for too long
Drama. These guys all normally get along pretty well, but here a squirrel decided to start something and nearly got kicked in the head as reward. Moments later they were back to munching sunflower seeds side-by-side again.
Uploaded on behalf of the collector, Kym Brennan
Small, fragile, 10cm tall. In leaf mould in heavy shade, lowland spring-fed monsoon forest, on drier part towards margin.
This is a normal gilled mushroom that has a very thin cap flesh, which splits radially (between the gills). Further drying lifts and twists the gill-segments into the flower shape in the image. The type specimen from Vanauatu had the same form on all fruitbodies, but the author was unsure whether this was an oddity, or the normal condition. The find of this Australian specimen shows that it is the norm, but it would be great to find young fruitbodies to understand exactly of the final form develops – at what point in development does it depart from a mushroom shape?
The species is Hausknechtia floriformis, a monotypic genus only described in 2020, with a single species described (by Anton Hausknecht) in 2003, previously only known from Vanuatu. I have been on the lookout for it, great to know it occurs in Australia too.
A link to the genus description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3
A link to the original species description: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwh767wJD0AhWQXisKHV56AnkQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zobodat.at%2Fpdf%2FOestZPilz_12_0031-0040.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2rG4jlSDVwwBUmwAkpRYGM
Golden-backed Frog
Mushroom grown on frog body
Caught during an owl banding session at the Wildcat Hills banding station
been trying to figure out where this bird was for two years... persistence, a hunch and a tip put this one on my life list after I shed a few tears, did a jig, and gave out a loud yelp later in the day
hunting from nearby tree, about 10:30am, looking intently down at snow, then landed and mantled for a couple of minutes, burying its head into the snow several times before flying off in the opposite direction
The critically endangered Forest Owlet has an extremely small and fragmented population in central India. This species belongs to the typical owls family, Strigidae.
Image #1:
Canon EOS 6D + Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro
1.0 sec, f/8.0, ISO 400
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (23 Images)
Image #2:
Canon EOS 6D + Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro
1.0 sec, f/8.0, ISO 400
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (23 Images)
Image #3:
Canon EOS 6D + Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro
1.0 sec, f/8.0, ISO 400
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (16 Images)
Image #4:
Canon EOS 6D + Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro
0.4 sec, f/8.0, ISO 400
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (7 Images)
Image #5:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x + Yongnuo YN-14EX TTL LED Macro Ring Flash
1/180 sec, f/11, ISO 100
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (2 Images)
Image #6:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x + Yongnuo YN-14EX TTL LED Macro Ring Flash
1/180 sec, f/11, ISO 100
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (2 Images)
Image #7:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x + Yongnuo YN-14EX TTL LED Macro Ring Flash
1/180 sec, f/11, ISO 100
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (4 Images)
Image #8:
Canon EOS 6D + Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x + Yongnuo YN-14EX TTL LED Macro Ring Flash
1/180 sec, f/11, ISO 100
Color Corrected w/ X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker (5 Images)
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Comments: a beautiful mycoheterotroph. This is probably T. panamensis, the one common and widespread member of the genus in the Neotropics. The rest are exceedingly rare.
Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on May 27, 2019.
Raríssima e pouco conhecida, essa planta parasita fungos micorrízicos. São conhecidos apenas dois indivíduos que estão depositados em uma coleção cientifica do Rio. Essa é a primeira foto na natureza dessa espécie.
Found in bamboo forest in a small group of about 5-7
Presumably a parasitic plant since no leaves were observed and no plants nearby.
Very cool pagoda-like brown and white fungus with tiered discs on central stem. Two to three cm tall. First time I have seen one of these. Percy Scenic Reserve, Lower Hutt.
Four photos of three mushrooms were found in the same location in a wood mulched area of the Hamilton Gardens on the 12 and 13 March 2017. They have been combined as one observation
Really cool little guys that was also almost ran over with the car. In moss near conifers in back of the dunes.
I'm always on the look out for this and usually manage to find it once a year, always at a different site.
You can see the stem of the Cystoderma amianthinum which is swollen as the parasite pushes up through it. And the remain can also be seen on the cap.
Working with Microscope and Key with Funga Nordica
3340 meters elevation. On the mossy side of a ravine.
Lamellar trama interwoven. Pileipellis interwoven.
Spores hyaline, 8 × 4 μm, shaped like a comma. No germ pore, hilar appendage conspicuous.
Very distinct crenated edge to pileus of all mushrooms growing in group.
Decurrent gills, not strongly decurrent but not a decurrent notch either.
In second growth forst of mixed conifer forest - closest trees western red cedar.
Group of 7.
Largent only one who has it described in detail that I could find and he mentions both crenate edges and decurrent gill structure - likely a west coast species if DNA helps to clarify species.
On ground - but also next to old stump - like very close and cozy.
Over a dozen fruiting bodies scattered at the base of a redwood tree.
Found growing in thick bracken patch. Fluoro green colour.
These may be the most beautiful mushrooms I've ever seen in my life.