danmccullough

danmccullough, 2 months ago to nature

My wife: “Bear sightings have started. We should bring in the bird feeder.”

Me: “I think we have another day or two.”

Bear: crash, crack, crunch

#nature #wildlife #BlackBear #NewEngland

danmccullough, 4 days ago to nature

A Rosy Maple Moth [Dryocampa rubicunda] to brighten up your day.

#insects #moths #nature

danmccullough, 3 months ago to Mushrooms

Large Artists Conk shelf mushrooms adding to the girth of #ThickTrunkTuesday

#fungi #mushrooms #pilz #nature #Ganodermaapplanatum

danmccullough, 2 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

danmccullough, 8 months ago to Cats

So this is not just any #caturday. It’s Pippin’s 16th birthday. She’s been my little co-pilot for a lot of years. #cats #catsofmastodon #siberianforestcat #happybirthday #catstodon #mastocats

danmccullough, 24 days ago to nature

Last year, we learned our porcupines do not like getting their paws wet. So my wife built them a little stone bridge to cross the 1 inch deep trench 🥹 They seem to have mastered it! Anything to not get wet. Even if they’re already soaked from the pouring rain…

#Nature #Wildlife #Porcupine #TrailCam

17 second, black and white trailcam footage of a beefy porcupine lumbering down an old path to an 8 inch wide trench that carries water from the forest to the brook. It approaches cautiously, check the stones that have been placed as a bridge, and slowly walks across. The video is taken in the middle of the night and it is raining.

danmccullough, 3 months ago to nature

Recruited my wife to help show off the majesty of this colossus.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #nature

danmccullough, 6 months ago to Mushrooms

There’s a tree in there somewhere.
#FungiFriday #fungi #mushrooms #TurkeyTail #trametesversicolor #pilze

danmccullough, 5 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

danmccullough, 6 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

danmccullough, 28 days ago to Cats

All the news that fit to sit.

#Caturday #Cats #CatsofMastodon #SiberianForestCat

danmccullough, 4 months ago to snowboarding

Good morning, Mastodon.
#snow #nature

danmccullough, 1 month ago to nature

When the sun is directly over this stretch of brook. Quite sparkly.

#nature

danmccullough, 4 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

danmccullough, 3 months ago to nature

A dapper Barometer Earthstar [Astraeus hygrometricus] found smack in the middle of an old lumbering road.

#FungiFriday #fungi #mushroom #pilz #nature #Mushtodon #hiking

danmccullough, 14 days ago to animals

Pippin found a loophole in the No jumping up on “counters” rule.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats

danmccullough, 5 months ago to animals

What’s better than a warming mat? The sun coming through the window ONTO the warming mat.
#Caturday #CatsofMastodon #Cats #SiberianForestCat #Floof

danmccullough, 5 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

danmccullough, 4 months ago to hiking

Sometimes you go offtrail and get rewarded with nothing but poison ivy, mud and ticks. But sometimes you take that unmarked, narrow, winding trail and it’s so totally worth it. #hiking #nature

danmccullough, 5 months ago to Mushrooms

Yesterday’s Hike

My Wife: “A waterfall!”
Me: “Purple Tooth mushrooms!”
My Wife: “You’re taking a picture of the waterfall, right?”
Me: “I am.”

#fungi #mushrooms #pilze #waterfall #Trichaptumabietinum #nature #hiking

danmccullough, 1 month ago to nature

Red Trillium in bloom!

#nature #wildflowers #NewEngland #flowers #BloomScrolling

danmccullough, 29 days ago to Mushrooms

These wonderful little Q-tip sprouty things are Swamp Beacon [Mitrula elegans] mushrooms, and up until yesterday I had never found one. In fact they aren’t listed in many of my guides or fungi websites I visit. They mostly grow on fallen conifer needles IN BOGS… so you can see why they don’t get a lot of press!

#FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #pilze #Mushtodon

danmccullough, 3 months ago to animals

At 16, she’s still a little ball of fur and color.
#caturday #CatsofMastodon #cats #SiberianForestCat

danmccullough, 20 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

danmccullough, 19 days ago to nature

I don’t find a lot of Painted Trillium [Trillium undulatum] in the woods, but was lucky to find this sweet little patch.

#Nature #NewEngland #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling