2019 FALL MUSHROOMS PA

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.

 

What's rain?

I jest...we had .05" in Pittsburgh last night...

 

We had a "deluge" in Bethlehem, .1 inch.

 

Finding any hens around you yet?

 

Four so far. All small and starting to dry. We're hoping for some rain next week to get thing going.

 

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

 

SquirrelKing, where are you from?

 

I’m in schuylkill Co.
The” SKOOK “ lol

 

Oh ok. I'm from Beaver county

 

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.

 

Good deal! Congrats! Hopefully more to come once the weather chills out haha

 

Nice

 

Congrats. I was out hiking for 3.5 hours today and didnt even find a non edible mushroom. So dry

 

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.

 

Same mushrooms on same tree.1 day apart.

 

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.