3:00 snapshot #1074 plus bonus mushrooms

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Pictures are from Friday the 28th of September. At lunch I led a mushroom walk, and forgot to take any pictures (always happens when I'm leading a walk) until after it ended. I was with my coworker Ed and we passed a pile of cedar logs, and wondered aloud if they ever grew mushrooms. Cedar is used for outdoor fencing and other uses because it resists decay. As we paused by the logs we noticed the bird's nest fungi growing on them.

There are a few different kinds of bird's nest mushrooms, this is coincidentally the same species that I profiled as 365 urban species number 294, Crucibulum laeve, different from the last bird's nest fungus I found at the zoo: Cyathus striatus.