Found a couple Hens last weekend in Lower Bucks Co. 1 decent sized and 3 small ones, raining right now so I'll check again tomorrow.
Found one hen yesterday, but still very dry . We picked up a decent amount of rain last night , hope it helps lol.
It took four weeks, but we finally got more rain...a mini-hurricane last night with 60 mph winds, quarter-sized hail, and .25-.5" rain, all blowing sideways. The hail blew holes in all of our screens. Don't know if this'll help, and I KNOW the 84-88 F temps Monday-Wednesday won't, but I'll have a look soon.
I hear ya. I went out yesterday just to see what I could see. Found some chickens, and a couple small hens that were from a couple weeks ago and have since died. I'm hoping for the blooms to start late this week with the temps and rains more towards normal... At least the last time I checked
I found my first hen of the year in Snyder co today, it was at a tree that I found three at last year. It is so dry here that I am surprised that I found anything. It was about the size of a soccer ball.
Hey all...just been creeping here and there...really no time out this summer but always come across this house and 1 next to it, where every year have ringless honeys..
I spent several hours recently driving around the trails on my property in an ATV. The land is littered with oak, and some patches of hemlock, and I haven't seen a single shroom. I'm used to this time of year seeing hundreds, I have never seen such a dry fall.
I went for a hike on a ridge in Mifflin county today. I found some honey mushrooms that were dried up, one chicken that was in good shape which I harvested, and a hen that was bigger than the one that I found yesterday. The only problem was I ended up with less of the hen today due to bugs. I did find quite a few chicken mushrooms too far gone. Sorry about the picture quality it was raining when I took them. The weird thing about this ridge is that every hen I found on it last year and the one this year has been at dead stumps. There are a lot of mature oaks and I check most of them every time I am there. Other areas I hunt I find most of them on live trees.
Yeah, I gave some chickens two days, and some went from "nubbins" to "flat and almost too old on the inner half". 88F will do that...but at least I got fresh mushrooms and had some for dinner, with onions, sliced Serrano chili and more.