Bluff point, Groton, CT

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Howdee all,

Its Autumn here in Connecticut. Blustery, stormy days interspersed with sunshine and windy days.

Bluff point is our favorite place for a four mile round trip walk..not to far from Mom and Dads.

This was an evening walk.

   Windy with no rain.

Just getting dark…

We brought our bins on this walk..but the wind kept most birds down.

We did see a Great Egret.

  Lots of Cormorants, Gulls and Yellow-rumped warblers, Song sparrows, Eastern Towhees and Blue jays.

otherwise..it was pretty quiet…

I am always looking for mushrooms…We found a few gems on this trip.

This is some sort of Lepioda mushroom

I have never tried any Lepioda mushrooms..too many poisonous look alikes.

  Puff ball city..

  Some puff balls are edible

If I don't know a mushroom well, I don't eat it unless I am out with an expert.

I try to stay with the safe mushrooms..ones I know inside and out.

If these are edible..this would make a nice mushroom soup.

Instead..I will use the mushrooms I froze and dried last fall in Oregon…

Chanterelles, Lobsters, Matsutake, Porcini, Chicken of the woods.

   The colors are changing..the leaves are falling..and the Birdies are going souther..

A lovely time of year…  

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