Wild Colorado (Deer Video) & Older Michigan Pictures from Spring
Hello, guys and gals, in this post, I had some down home hobbies I wanted to share. I like outdoor wildlife and mushroom foraging.
Picture of Puffball Mushroom? -- Puffballs are edible so long as it is a true puffball and not an immature other species of mushroom.
Video of Wild Deer
I had some video I shot of a deer and I wanted to share:
Agaricus Mushroom(?)
Below is closer detail of the mushroom in the video which belongs most likely to the Agaricus genus of mushrooms. This mushroom could be a horse mushroom, but one would want to go through the possibilities of look-alikes.
Below is a "spore print" of the mushroom, this is done on white paper to see what color the spores are. This is what experts use to help their identification.
"Mica Caps" Coprinellus micaceus
This species of mushroom below is called "mica caps". These were growing in Michigan, the same time of year Morel Mushrooms grow. I analyzed these mushrooms back then, but I did not try eating any. I hear they are edible, I may try them one day if I am comfortable doing so.
Morel Mushroom
These guys are the delicious morel mushroom, the white variety. They grow every year behind my parent's house in a poplar forest. Some years, we could get as much as 20 lb of mushrooms. During the local mushroom festival, the fresh specimens could sell for $70 per pound, roadside. These are being soaked, before being cooked.
Black Trumpets & Chanterelles
Last fall, I picked these beauties, and they were certainly delicious to eat. Few people in Michigan know that they have gourmet mushrooms growing besides the Morel Mushroom species. Meaning there is zero competition to pick these kinds of mushrooms.
The black trumpets were by far the best, they may be better even than the Morel Mushroom. The Chanterelles were very good, but they get bugs in them easily in Michigan, so I was forced to soak them in a salt bath.
Interesting video and post. I'm all about learning new things and this knowledge could be quite useful in a pinch. The deer being so docile and just letting you walk right next to it is quite different from the deer here. Of course hunting is very popular where I live and they're no doubt conditioned to fear humans and avoid us at all costs. I love being able to observe nature in their habitat though, it really gives you the sense of what real freedom is. Thanks for posting this!
Can't say I'm a fan of mushrooms - it's a texture thing. But great pics!
Mushrooms are fun. After learning some about it, some of them have amazing health benefits. Like normal foods like veggies will have anti-oxidants or other beneficial properties. Some mushroom types will have antioxidants in stratospheric levels making them super foods. This winter, my Dad and I went out and picked some of those mushrooms to make a tea out of them because it was a super-food mushroom. After drinking the tea, cancer on his ear shrank within the days / weeks that followed. They actually make cancer medicines out of some of these mushrooms now days.
I don't dispute that mushrooms have valuable medical properties and that more research should be done to understand their benefits. Regarding the cancer on your father's ear, can you control/prove that it shrank due to the mushroom tea?
Oh no, it's anecdotal, but there are plenty of other stories out there like this. Some studies are done just on the health benefits of the teas and what not that people can do at home. There is a guy I follow on YouTube that talks about the science behind it. It's real interesting stuff.
Ted - Crypto specialist and Mushroom man! We at Community News - love your work!
sadly i am allergic to mushrooms
So sad!