Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge [Bluefoot pics included]

Home | Community | Message Board

You are not signed in.
New Account

Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Hunting and Identification

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop:

Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds

Buy Kratom Extract

Bridgetown Botanicals

North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies

Spores for European Microscopy

Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder

Liquid Cultures

Certified Organic All-In-One Grow Bags by Magic Bag

Red Vein Kratom

Jump to first unread post

Pages: 1

Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.

shroomydan
exshroomerite

Registered: 07/04/04
Posts: 4,126
Loc: In the woods

Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge [Bluefoot pics included]

#5636778 - 05/16/06 09:16 AM (20 years, 2 months ago)

Yesterday I found a completely new hunting ground. This one is most easily accessed by boat.

But I did find one road access point on the West Virginia side of the river.

Please don't think I'm giving away a specific location. The Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge spans the entire length of the river. Most of the islands or included, but some are not.

The place I visited is huge, with several different types of habit in the same general area.

There is an upper woodland habitat, hosting common woodland mushrooms. These Fawn Mushrooms were in abundance.

Fawn Mushroom [Pluteus cervinus]

The Platterful mushrooms were also abundant and can resemble the Fawn Mushroom. Platterfuls should not be eaten; my mother and father were poisoned from eating them

Platterful Mushroom [Megacollybia platyphylla/ Tricholomopsis platyphylla]

In the same area I also fond this little fellow. I've never seen one in the Spring before.

[Hericium sp.]

There were also a few of these little pink ladies that Falcon and I were unable to ID at the gathering over the weekend.

After a bit, the woods opened into a recently constructed grassy hill area. There are long lines of construction hay-bails stretching around the hill. I suspect they were placed there for erosion control. I checked for Pan subbs but found only these LBMs. I didn't spend much time trying to ID them, because I had not yet reached the part of the reserve where I suspected Bluefoot to be hiding.

Hay-bail LBM

At the bottom of this hill, and blocking my way to the lowland along the river, was a wall extending as far as I could see in either direction.

My little friend was at a loss.

"How will we ever make it to the land of the Bluefoot?" he said.

Fortunately, I had seen this type of barrier while working with the homeless in Columbus Ohio. There I met a wise old hobo who showed me how to get through. One might be tempted to crawl under standing railroad cars, but this should NEVER be done! The train could start moving at anytime and you could be literally cut in half. The safe way to traverse standing railroad cars is to climb across the link between two cars.

Or, if you don't want to deal with the hassle, you can always just walk around to the end, like I did.

Once across the tracks and down the embankment I found what I was looking for: Large tracks of Japanese Knot-weed, standing under tall silver maples.

Japanese knot-weed is hard to hunt because it's so thick you can only see directly in front of you as you swim through the stuff. But it is certainly rewarding.

I found these colorful little guys.

TBCM [Tiny Brightly Colored Mushrooms] :grin:

And of course, Bluefoot was hiding under there, just like I hoped he would be. :smile:

Bluefoot [Psilocybe caerulipes]

I only found the one patch before I stopped looking. I had no intension of collecting them, and having documented their existence and habitat in the refuge, I continued to explore other parts of of this remarkable hunting ground. I image if someone took the time to search for them, many could be found in the area. They grow from debris piles under the Japanese knot-weed. The patch I found was at the base of a silver maple. I also imaging they are living in similar environments up and down the Ohio River.

On the way back upland I kept smelling what reminded me of really good fruity nugs. I thought maybe it was time to do my shirt laundry, but then I realized it was this tree. The leaves smell like fruity buds, and the gummy berries (left over from the fall) smell like citronella. I saw many saplings and trees about twenty to thirty feet tall.

ID requested

I was forunate enough to encounter a moving train as I approached the tracks separating the upland from the lowland.

And I also saw an invisible black panther. I distinctly saw a black animal, moving like a cat, but two to three time larger than any domestic cat I have ever encountered. He came out of the woods about a hundred yards in front of me and walked down the path, but when I took a picture this is what came out.

I have to admit, I was more concerned with finding a big sturdy stick at the time, than I was with taking pictures. I lost sight of him in my haste to find a weapon, but a little ways further up the path I saw a small black cat. Perhaps I imagined the big cat, or perhaps there were two, a big one and a little one. Anyway, when hunting mushrooms alone, it is always wise to carry a good sturdy stick.

:smile:

Extras:

Similar Threads	Poster	Views	Replies	Last post
Blue-foot Psilocybe caerulipes [ovoideocystidiata] Found in Ohio [Fall fruit photo added 28NOV06] ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 all )	shroomydan	78,850	124	05/30/18 04:54 PM by Funnyguy
Active Pluteus found in Ohio	shroomydan	4,309	11	06/22/06 04:24 AM by Zen Peddler
Ohio Hunters	Jurd420	5,872	19	02/22/08 04:46 PM by CureCat
hunter in ohio--help	ronthehippy	2,300	14	05/11/03 03:02 AM by ronthehippy
NW Ohio question...	sloluva	1,518	4	04/12/02 05:14 PM by NITRIC
Blue footed LBM from Ohio	shroomydan	3,811	19	07/23/04 10:54 AM by Mitchnast
update10/20 more pics-printsfound these on long island ny, r they pan subbs? ( 1 2 all )	Shnezbit	6,049	27	10/22/06 12:18 PM by Shnezbit
Ohio Big Laughing Gyms HELP!!!!	vandago	3,867	18	07/22/04 04:19 PM by RoKiSdEaD