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Holarctic Ground Squirrels (Tribe Marmotini)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Douglas' ground squirrel, O. douglasii (after 2023 split) in Modoc National Wildlife Refuge
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Cetaceans (Infraorder Cetacea)Observer
hardingleeDescription
ID help please. I took this (bone circled in white) to be a whale vertebra, the only common cetaceans being Beluga and Bowhead. But its long, symmetrical processes do not seem to match images I found on-line. The site also has human bones and cultural items (sleds etc., tin cooking implements) that suggest late 19th or early 20th Century Inuvialuit. Same bone in both images. Photographed about July 15, 1973.
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Blue-staining Slippery Jack (Suillus tomentosus)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Cap tan-brown, 10 cm diam., slightly depressed, yellow underside, veil remnants on cap & ring; faint yellow spore print.
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Scaly Chanterelle (Turbinellus floccosus)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Sorry for poor focus. Common (not abundant) at Galena Bay
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
hardingleeDescription
ID help please: cap 8.6 cm, pale orange (darker in centre) deeply depressed with inrolled, ragged edge, light tan, gills broadly attached. Flakey margins. Brownish-yellow sport print. Not scaley chanterelle.
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Blackening Russula (Russula albonigra)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Cap depressed centre, 8 cm diam., greenish tinging becoming brown with black under rim; Stem shorter than cap diam., bulbous at base.
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Shellfish-scented Russula (Russula xerampelina)Observer
hardingleeDescription
ID help please. Cap 12 cm, red-orange, depressed in centres. slimy, striations @ margin; gills attached, white,; stem thick (1.0'/2.5 cm), shorter than diam. of cap; yellow spore print
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Destructive Pholiota (Hemipholiota populnea)Observer
hardingleeDescription
ID help please: Grows only on felled cottonwood logs. Caps tan (darker in centre) with white flecks, strongly convex, 4-14 cm, incurled, veiled or veil remnants, ring close up under the cap (not always obvious), gills free or nearly so, dingy white; stems ~4-6 cm, bulbous at base. Brown spore print.
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Brittlegills (Genus Russula)Observer
hardingleeDescription
help ID please. Knife is 8.9 cm. Cap rosy, more brown in depressed centre; gills free.
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Western Meadow Fritillary (Boloria epithore ssp. sigridae)Observer
hardingleeDescription
opening in Interior Cedar-Hemlock biogeoclimatic zone.
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Rose Twisted-Stalk (Streptopus lanceolatus)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Interior Cedar-Hemlock Zone
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Columbia Spotted Frog (Rana luteiventris)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Galena Bay: Interior Cedar-Hemlock zone.
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Pacific Oak Fern (Gymnocarpium disjunctum)Observer
hardingleeDescription
ID help please. Columbia valley wet belt, Interior Cedar-Hemlock zone. Plants < 0.3 m high in shaded location in permanently moist soil.
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Mayflowers and False Solomon's Seals (Genus Maianthemum)Observer
hardingleeDescription
ID help please: similar to one I identified as Smilacena racemose, but broader leaves, not so stiffly arched stem and DROOPING inflorescence. Only two plants (or one with 2 stems) among a variety of Liliaceae including many putative Smilacena racemosa (of which, two examples appear in right background of the 2nd image posted here).
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Solomon's Plume (Maianthemum racemosum)Observer
hardingleeDescription
ID help please. Arched stem, narrow lanceolate leaves, UPRIGHT inflorescence, knee-high. Interior cedar-hemlock zone. See next post of a similar Liliaceae, but with broader leaves and a DROOPING inflorescence).
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Hooker's Fairybells (Prosartes hookeri)Observer
hardingleeDescription
ID help please: not D. smitthii?Hairy leave margins. Interior rain belt/
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Townsend's Warbler (Setophaga townsendi)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Several in top of tall cottonwood tree. I saw them & Merlin (app) recorded them. Merlin said there were Pacific-slope Flycatchers in the recording but I did not hear them or see them.
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American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Formerly we called all the local crows Northwestern Crow; doubt I could distinguish them.
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Laurels (Family Lauraceae)Observer
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Exotic bush or bushy tree
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Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)Observer
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Blooms fading
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Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)Observer
hardingleeDescription
Poor photo. Display (fanning) white tail feathers courtship display.
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Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)Observer
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3 vultures; first I saw this year.
