Mushrooms, bears, wolves, moose... (criminal history of 18 photos)

Yesterday I continued the mushroom season. Unexpectedly, the trip to the forest turned out to be successful. I just went for a walk with the camera, but came home with mushrooms and...a tick. Yes, friends, the tick and I have found each other, so be careful in the forest and in general where there is grass. But let's not talk about sad things.

I do not know if you have met this mushroom in the forest, I noticed it for the first time. It looks like an elf bowl, but does not have a bright red color on top. Otherwise, it looks no different, the same bowl.

A Kind of Pizza:

Peziza, <...>(Latin Pezíza) is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the Pezizaceae family. One of the most famous genera of the discomycetes group.
Fruit bodies are cup—shaped apothecia, sometimes saucer-shaped with age, sessile or on a short sterile leg, thin and fragile, brittle, sometimes fleshy, from 1-3 to 5-10 cm in diameter. The external sterile surface is smooth or granular.
The spores are mostly white. Aski are octosporous, cylindrical in shape, with an amyloid end. The spores are hyaline, elliptical, less often spherical, smooth-walled or ornamented, in some species with 1 or 2 oil drops. Paraphyses with a thickened end, colored.
Anamorphs are unknown in most species.

As you can see, I found this mushroom not quite in the forest... love came here with heavy machinery and damaged my beloved forest. Several cuttings and ugly glades were formed. But it turned out to be a good home for these mushrooms. They grow on old rotten wood.

I was walking along an ordinary forest path and admired the forest itself. And then I saw the gaps... in the photo it may be beautiful, but I was upset. I didn't recognize my forest...

There were deep ruts along the edge of this clearing, and these mushrooms grew along them.

By the way, I wasn't the only one wandering through these cuttings. In the center of the square you can see the paw print of a bear. It was left in the mud, which has now dried up and this trace has been preserved.

This is also the trail of a bear, you may notice that he ate last year's cranberries, but it did not have time to digest in his stomach.

There are also many tracks left by moose. It looks like the wolves have already checked in here. It looks more like the trail of a large dog (a wolf's trail is usually more elongated), but no one walks here now and there is nothing for dogs to do here.

By the way, does anyone know what red is?
It is similar to Thelebolus terrestris...But I'm not sure.

Take care of yourself and loved ones.
See you soon.

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