#hen of the wood

[quieteating]

The Ritz Restuarant

I’ve always wanted to visit the Ritz. I summoned up the courage to enter this hallowed place a few weeks ago.  I was apprehensive due to the smartly dressed doormen who looked like they knew how to deal with riff raff.  I have personal experience of their skill as once, when I was passing by, I thought it would be nice to sneak a peak.  I was refused entry on account of my shoes, as apparently I…

[melgillman]

We're around the corner from Fall mushroom hunting season (the best mushroom hunting season IMO) and I've got maitake on my mind!

Here's a page from Fungi Feast, my free li'l mushroom-hunting zine.

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[unpretty]

So do you own a chicken now? Or did you find a farm for it?

we snuck her into the coop while all the chickens were sleeping and this morning she got up with the rest of them and they all had breakfast together peacefully, so she seems to have integrated with our existing flock without issue

[werewolfsoldat]

my favorite genre of animation

[aphermion]

Maitake and deer jawbone

[uwmspeccoll]

A Wood-engraved Feathursday

MORE CHICKENS!!

One can never have enough chickens. Today's flock is from a wood engraving by Kentucky potter and engraver Gwen Heffner (1952-2021) entitled Three French Hens from the catalog of the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN). We love how Heffner captures the goofy, maniacal look that chickens often have.

Gwen Heffner received her BA degree in printmaking and ceramics from Luther College in Iowa and her graduate degree in ceramics from the University of Louisville, and she maintained a pottery outside Irvine, Kentucky. Heffner worked as an artist for school systems in her state and had long associations with the Contemporary Artifacts Gallery and the Kentucky Artisan Center, both in Berea, Kentucky. Unfortunately, Heffner passed away before this catalog was printed. We are pleased to share her print with you.

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[thatswhatilikebruh]

OK JUST BINGED WATCHED THE WHOLE SEASON 1 OF 911 Here are my thoughts nobody asked for:

ATHENA best character sorry but she can CUFF me any day ( respectfully)

Bobby I love you my dad ( this guy needs to learn to forgive hmiself fr)

I love Buck sm , he is so so stupid 😭 he is my babygirl ( how can he be 26 ?????)

I absolutely hate the cheating arc with hen and karen ( hopefully hen will make it up to her OR ELSE ILL BE VERRY PISSED)

Chimney is ok i guess not very sold on him tbh

Abby is your average white girl ( but im guessing we are not gonna see her again after all that??? )

So thats that, EXCITED to meet eddie in season 2 🥰

[dansnaturepictures]

Ten of my favourite photos I took in October 2024 and month summary

The photos are of; fly agaric at Matley Wood in the New Forest, shaggy scalycaps at Lakeside Country Park, Kingfisher at Blashford Lakes, Speckled Wood, Migrant Hawker, Mottled shieldbugs and view at Lakeside, autumn leaves in Winchester and Michaelmas daisies and New Forest Pony at Lymington.

October was a fantastic month of fungi for me. In the peak season I treasured seeing many spectacular, gorgeous and fascinating species including fly agaric, devil's fingers, amethyst deceiver, yellow stagshorn, shaggy scalycap, candlesnuff fungi, bleeding fairy helmet, eyelash fungi, parasol, turkey tail, earthballs, panthercap, false death cap, sulphur tuft and waxcaps. It has also been nice to see slime mould including red raspberry slime mould at a few places and lichen and moss.

I had a brilliant birdwatching month too with some special species seen heading well into autumn. Key species seen were a fair few Kingfishers, Water Rail, Great White Egret, Greenshank, Avocet, Lapwing, Jack Snipe, Sanderling, Common Gull, Pochard, Gadwall, Pintail, Wigeon, Shoveler, Teal, Goosander, Brent Geese, Egyptian Geese, Little Grebe, Marsh Harriers, Siskin, Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, lots of Jays seen in their active time of year, notable Ravens at Lakeside and home, Dunnock, Blackcap at Lakeside, Cetti's Warbler, Wren and Long-tailed Tit. Turnstones and Ringed Plover seen well, Tufted Duck, Mute Swan, Moorhen, Coots and Greylag Geese at Lakeside, Jackdaw and Magpie seen a lot, Red Kite in Winchester, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Chaffinch, Grey Wagtail seen well and Pied Wagtail were also great to see. Glorious scenes came this month with the return of the Redwings a key bird of the autumn and winter, I was elated to see a Hen Harrier and I was thrilled to see the Winchester Peregrines and Lakeside Great Crested Grebes including their chicks a lot.

There were some nice butterflies to see still with lots of Speckled Woods especially at Lakeside, Red Admiral and Peacock and I was amazed to see a Hummingbird Hawk-moth in Winchester as well as other moths. Dragonflies and damselflies continued to shine this month with so many splendid views of Migrant Hawkers and Southern Hawker and Common Darters too. My first Willow Emerald Damselfly of the year was special to see at Fishlake Meadows. Other insects I enjoyed seeing this month were Mottled shieldbugs and other shieldbugs, wasps and hornets. It was good to see lots of spiders this month too including Long-bodied Cellar spider at home and snails and slugs. In terms of mammals I enjoyed seeing the also active Grey Squirrels a few times, Roe and Fallow Deers and New Forest Ponies.

Key flowers seen this month included Michaelmas daisies, forget-me-not, comfrey, lots of oxtongue, dandelion, tormentil, bell heather, common mallow, white deadnettle, stinging nettle, daisy, water mint, vervain, viper's-bugloss, horseweed, common and ivy-leaved toadflax, hogweed, yarrow, hedge woundwort, ragwort, gorse, dock, herb-Robert and wood avens which brought some wonderful colour as it quietened down for flowers. Wild carrot, teasel, hemp agrimony and spear thistle were among pretty seed heads enjoyed this month with cleavers enjoyed too. There was also a great display of berries this month again with rose hips, hawthorn berries, guelder rose berries, dogwood berries, nightshade berries and snowberries creating vibrant scenes.

And of course this month the splendour of autumn's colour was captivating and wholesome to observe. I also enjoyed taking in many great other vistas this month including coast, reedbed and general wetland, rivers and New Forest heaths and woodland. There were some special sky scenes observed this month too. Have a great November all.

[los-plantalones]

prep for stir fry! i LOVE that all i had to buy for this was celery. the rest was foraged / grown on the farm. 🫛🍄‍🟫🥕

[rawestrarityfairy]

Rainy rising farmers market

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Fungi February: The hen-of-the-woods is also known as the maitake at fancy restaurants. It is a perennial, so once established it can produce mushrooms in the same location for years. The polysaccharides contained in the mushroom have potential medicinal value, but more research is needed.

Disclaimer: Don’t rely on pictures of cute mushrooms with eyes to accurately identify edible mushrooms. At best the wrong one will taste bad, at worst it’ll be deadly!

[the-indie-owl]

Finally finished a Special Animash HMV for this Year's Halloween ^^ 🎃

[kxowledge]

London, April 2024

[miscellaneous--bones]

crow recently had a kid in my sdv save, so heres her and jamie

[huniidragon]

I drew Garbo, but she stole my heart instead! I adore this little bard!