I don't see Beavers much around here, though I must say in terms of walking around in the county part in the back:
My very first time EVER having Mushrooms (Psilocybin) I was with the Wife, and one of our best friends, and we went hiking in the back, and as we are walking, there's a part where you can go down a winding trail to the river, or go up to another ridge line, and as we walked up the ridge line, a baby deer was right in front of us..... It was epic!
I love walking out there and we generally try to go out at least once or twice a week depending on the Weather. The other day we went out after I made a blend of Cactido and Blue Cheese (The Sister Pheno that smells more floral and sweet but tastes spicy AF LOL) and I got a few pictures. The Trilliums have started to bloom out there, so with those and other wild flowers blooming it's starting to look stunning
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^ You can sort of see the pretty Yellow Flowers blooming in that one; I didn't get closer because it's quite a steep ridge LOL.
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From what I understand; These are a protected species here, so you aren't allowed to pick them. We actually have like 2 or 3 of them that popped up in one of the side gardens we have, and I'm guessing they just kind of blew in on the wind or something. Pretty cool though.
I've also been hearing that Morel Mushrooms have officially started being found in the woods out this way, though we haven't personally seen any yet. We tap them on the ground when we pluck those so they can get some spores on the ground. We also had a big ass Puffball Mushroom that had already gone passed it's peak, so we stuck in by the side yard's tree line, and stepped on it with our boots on before walking around through the woods so that we could spread some spores of that around more.
We also get Shaggy Manes in the yard too, and out in the back there's "Chicken of the Woods" or "Hen of the Forest" too, but I can't remember which one, or if those are the same thing; They're really good though and there's ONE log on the top of the Ridge that gets those, and then another log WAY out in the woods in a REALLY hard to get to spot that has a BUNCH of them!
We went out there one day Mushroom hunting, and we had brought like two grocery bags with us to store any we found, and when we found that log that's deep in the woods, it looked like the Chicken ones, and so we went down to where the log was, and sure enough, it was a HUGE score of them! We literally filled two grocery bags with those, and that wasn't even close to half the Mushrooms on that ONE log.
My guess is that because it's so far out there, and not easy to get to, that no one else picks them there, so, we took the bags we had of them and left the rest to spore so they will hopefully come back again