A little slice of local life, feeding the birds, mushroom foraging ...

It's been a while since I've shared anything other than art or music so here's a post with something different. It's absolutely gorgeous where we live near the coast and fall is especially pretty, though I am a little disappointed that we didn't get a lot of colorful leaves this year. I think the hurricane messed with it somehow :/

Usually I share pics of the beach nearby because I can't get enough of it but today I'll spare you and some of my favorite simple moments.

Feeding the Chickadees

This one gets full credit to @vachemorte for building trust with the birds haha <3 We have loads of birds in our backyard and he was determined to get them to eat out of his hand. It took a lot of patience but now they will easily come perch on our hand and take some birdseed. If they see us and we don't have any they come flying around around beeping at us and sometimes they will even land on my phone or guitar and demand food. They have basically become pests but they are so cute we don't mind at all. Giving them some seeds is probably our favorite time of the day :) There's something special about having a connection with a tiny little bird like that 😊

Mushrooms / the edible and the unknown

We went out for a walk the other day and found quite a lot of mushrooms. I can only identify feild mushrooms as being safe to eat but I found another one that looks quite similar but it is a lighter color underneath and more of a honey color on top. I have used reverse image search and got an idea what it is but I am not 100% so alas they got left behind. If anyone has a lead let me know because there were a lot of these in the woods and I like free food!

Left: field mushroom / right ????

I also found these but I don't think they are edible but very cool looking. One is like a spiky furry creature and the orange on is like jelly 0_0 They were both growing on a huge cut tree stump.