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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 2h

Well this is a relief. Two days ago I took the wood in for winter and wound up stiff from head to toe the following day/yesterday.
Was worried I was lifting too much with my back.
Today everything but my back feels stiff. I don't think I was lifting wrong, just out of shape.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 3h

Whale Cove Beach on Grand Manan. There's a small saltmarsh over the sand/gravel bar but not much for fresh water/rivers.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 3h

The photo being from a beach on Grand Manan doesn't help me fizzle out my suspicions. That was essentially the core habitat of the sea mink.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 3h

I would think a camera angle like this one's tricks would make the otters look longer/larger comparative to a log behind it.
Even still it only looks 2ft long as an adult so it still looks undersized to me, by like 25%.
And that belly would definitely be unusually large for a non-pregnant mink.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 3h

Photo credits to iNat user chelariverhawk.
I'm thinking that the spruce driftwood behind it isn't very thick. I think it looks roughly 1ft in diameter. Using that for scale I'm having trouble putting my estimated measurement over 24" long, which would be unusually small for an adult otter.

Some marine mustelids running along a rocky beach. A piece of driftwood is the bestest thing I can use for scale.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 4h

really small river otters***

Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 4h

It's probably just a group of really river small otters at the beach, not a family of sea minks, but they just seem like a weird size. Smaller than otters tend to be, but bulkier than minks tend to be.
And their faces aren't as stubby/round as the otter photos I'm using as a refresher.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 4h

Do I know any mustelid experts that I could run an outlandish idea across?
I would like someone to convince me that I'm not looking at a photo of an extinct species.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 4h

If winter just meant rain I think It would be one of my favourite seasons.

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Lawrence Lighthill @lawrencelighthill.bsky.social · 6h

Photo taken October 4, 2025, in Trinity County, Northern California of some lichens growing on a rock. The bright yellow lichens just stand out, even when there are flowers and green grass. #photography #lichens #NorthernCalifornia #FungiFriends #fungi

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Mark @bowie884.bsky.social · 6h

My favourite feature, and slight obsession, Funghi in the woods that I don't know the name of? Can I eat any of these? Part 18

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Eevla @eevla.bsky.social · 6h

We took our first proper forest walk post-hurricaine and everything is so incredibly mushroomy!
The cats enjoyed climbing on the fallen pines.

It's insane to see just how hard our area was hit by the storm, but we (and our house) are luckily totally fine!

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 23h

Lichens on quartz in Eldorado Canyon now 🌿

Yellow and grey lichen splashed across quartz outcrop

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 6h

In short, I don't have the gas money to bandaid my emotions the ways I usually do right now, and I have not been visited by one irl "friend" in almost ten years and it feels worse every year. People in other countries give more of a shit than people I know. I'm already a ghost.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 6h

Feeling quite glum today.

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Jennifer Uhlman @mushroomjenja.bsky.social · 3d

Little goblets 🤎🤎

Small brown and gray mushrooms with caps that make them look like wine goblets
They were on a very decomposed piece of wood.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 21h

There was a pop/soda factory along the river that dumped waste there, so a few thousand of the bottles can be blamed on that, but that's less than half of what's in there. Most of it is from years and years of careless individuals.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 21h

He also visits other lakes and shorelines to switch things up a bit.
Littering household waste was common practice up until the mid 1900s so most of it's old, but you do see some newer junk mixed in.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 21h

Shoutout to a local Youtuber Saltwater Sean.
He's been cleaning out the Sackville River of junk for years in an attempt to restore the river, and finds some pretty neat old stuff along the way.
I recommend watching his old videos first so you get to see the journey in its fullest context.

A screenshot of Saltwater Sean showing his loot from a dive in River Bourgeois

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Keyser Lauze 🇨🇦 @keyserlauze.bsky.social · 1d

Here's one for the #Mushoom lovers!🤍🍄🥰💚 This is definitely a fairy hangout! ✨️🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️✨️

"If you were a tiny organism in a forest’s soil, you would be enmeshed in a carnival of activity"

- Paul Stamets

#shrooms #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #moss #fungi #forest #fairy #mycelium

The image shows a group of small mushrooms, most likely from the genus Mycena. These mushrooms are commonly known as bonnets or bonnet caps.

Like tiny fairy umbrellas, a grouping of white bonnet caps poke up through a bed of lush green moss. Sticks, leaves and pine needles are nestled all around, creating the perfect conditions for the mycelium to bloom.

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Derrel @derrels.bsky.social · 1d

#Autumn is a #Fungus wonderland. #Toronto #Ontario #Mushroom #Nature #PuffBall #LionsMane

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 2d

I can't quite say I know what it's like to experience 30 degree weather in October, but it did go up to 29.5c today, and that was kinda crazy.
Don't think those wildfires are going out this week.

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Fun Ghoul 👻💜✨ @fungirl.bsky.social · 2d

Tfw you’re a mushroom but the warts are on the wrong side :/

#MushroomMonday

A bolete infected with hypomyces fungus, all white and fuzzy and lumpy

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 2d

This blue and purple Enteloma looked so nice against the fluffy green moss 🤩

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400
Stack of 22 images
10/19/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Surrounded by blurry greens from out-of-focus fluffy green moss, a small mushroom with a dark blue stipe, white and well-separated gills, and a light purple cap is centered in the photo. Our view is from ground level, and we're looking up at the gills of the mushroom from underneath.

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FungiJoJofromCanada @fungijojo.bsky.social · 2d

Artist conk - Ganoderma applanatum growing around a stick and will eventually consume it. It is parasitic and saprophytic, meaning it attacks and decomposes trees and is more common on dead trees than living ones. 👇

#fungi #fungifriends

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