Although I was not feeling especially motivated, the weather was still pretty decent, with partly cloudy skies giving way to overcast as the morning wore on, so I told Connor and Rowan that we would go up Gavan Trail to the junction with the upper cross trail. When I had last been up that way, I had noticed a bright orange polypore, but did not collect it. It turns out, that in order to get it identified, it needed to be collected, so I figured this would be a good opportunity.
While there, Connor pointed out some other interesting looking fungi growing on the cut log end opposite the one with the orange polypore, so I took some pictures of it as well. Only after I got home and took a closer look at the photos did I notice the slime mold developing near the orange polypore. As I’ve thought so many times before, if only I had noticed at the time, I would have taken a closer look and got better photos. I guess it’s good to get reminders.
I checked the ibuttons, and other than a bunch of water that had seeped in to the bags that were supposed to be protecting the ground ibutton, there weren’t any issues. I replaced the rusting wire (so squirrels don’t cut the string, which they had before) with some scrap trolling cable that Connor had. It will be a much simpler process to retrieve data from the ibuttons from here on, so that is nice.
I heard from someone today that the swans had left Starrigavan.
