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sleet sliding down a windshield
October 28, 2015 at 8:00 am
some kind of fungus on a tree?
October 28, 2015 at 8:04 am
No earthly idea what it is, but it is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
October 28, 2015 at 8:05 am
Beaver snacking on tree bark?
October 28, 2015 at 8:08 am
An animal – doesn’t quite look like a chipmunk, but doesn’t seem deep enough for a bear…
October 28, 2015 at 8:10 am
This looks like sleet or snow running down a windshield or window pane, perhaps in smoggy air to give it the dingy color. This is a good challenge to me. Keep up the great articles. Love ’em.
October 28, 2015 at 8:10 am
Knawing of tree bark by…. Not sure what part of the tree this is perhaps a deer or moose.
October 28, 2015 at 8:12 am
Underside of a fern
October 28, 2015 at 8:20 am
Scar on a squash?
October 28, 2015 at 8:22 am
rodent, rabbit-mouse , chewing bark of black cherry sapling
October 28, 2015 at 8:22 am
IT looks like a resupinate mushroom (a crust) on a dead branch of a cherry tree.
October 28, 2015 at 8:25 am
Spreading fungus on either a cherry or birch tree.
October 28, 2015 at 8:26 am
Fungus on tree bark.
October 28, 2015 at 8:29 am
Beaver chews on Black Birch log
October 28, 2015 at 8:30 am
Fungus on tree or rock
October 28, 2015 at 8:36 am
Chewed edge of a leaf, perhaps from a maple tree, don’t know what critter did the chewing.
October 28, 2015 at 8:47 am
A watermelon with a fungus.
October 28, 2015 at 8:49 am
Nope; what’s been eaten away looks woody. And there’s a lichen.
October 28, 2015 at 8:54 am
It looks like a rodent has spent time on a winter squash!
October 28, 2015 at 9:06 am
The edge of bark on a tree or woodsy plant. Where the solidified bark meets the newer, greener growth. ??
October 28, 2015 at 9:08 am
wild guess…squash being eaten by small creature…
October 28, 2015 at 9:17 am
A fungus of some kind, possibly on a birch log. The lichen is a clue…
October 28, 2015 at 9:20 am
antler rub?
October 28, 2015 at 9:20 am
collected frozen rain (hail or sleet) on a windshield
October 28, 2015 at 9:55 am
Leaves/needles/slush on a windshield
October 28, 2015 at 9:55 am
Blue Hubbard Squash sliced through
October 28, 2015 at 10:16 am
Growth on rock, fungus?
October 28, 2015 at 10:17 am
Careful photo of the very edge of a beaver chewed stump or log, perhaps striped maple
October 28, 2015 at 10:23 am
Porcupine chew?
October 28, 2015 at 10:23 am
Porcupine-gnawed bark?
October 28, 2015 at 10:30 am
To me it looks like the pink encrusting marine algae that grow on the tidepool rocks in Maine. But that other bit looks like a terrestrial lichen, which would pooch that theory.
October 28, 2015 at 10:41 am
I don’t know…my initial thought was a whale. Like, with barnacles on it. But now I don’t think so. My other thought is that it could be a tree with some sort of growth on it, because of the likens on the top of the picture.
October 28, 2015 at 11:12 am
Some kind of tree parasite on bark?
October 28, 2015 at 12:00 pm
canyonlands, on a blustery day with snow/sleet coming down!
October 28, 2015 at 12:07 pm
Beaver gnawing on aspen bark
October 28, 2015 at 12:30 pm
Fungus growing on the bark of a fallen (dead) tree branch or trunk.
October 28, 2015 at 12:52 pm
looks like nibbling of some kind on a sapling of some kind….
October 28, 2015 at 1:28 pm
Claw or teeth marks on a green gourd.
October 28, 2015 at 1:40 pm
Hi Mary… Per your request, I scrolled down for comment without looking at the others…
I would say this is a young dead cherry tree lying down on the forest floor, possibly a birch…
After I post this, I will then read the other comments and as is typically the case, I get it wrong!
BF… WGF Studio53
October 28, 2015 at 2:34 pm
I haven’t looked at the other comments, but could this be a dead birch or maybe aspen (I think I see diamond-shaped lenticils) log or tree trunk? The top thin outer-layer of bark is peeling away revealing a woody inner layer. There is a small amount of foliose lichen on the top of the dark peeling layer (upper right just off center).
October 28, 2015 at 2:51 pm
I think it’s a fungus, either Gloeoporus dichrous or Phlebia radiate
October 28, 2015 at 3:03 pm
It looks like there is a thorn in the midst of part of the pink stuff. Hmmm.
October 28, 2015 at 3:07 pm
I have NOT peeked at comments above! I think I see a little piece of lichen, for scale, and since you’ve been on a fern/fungi kick I”m going with some sort of fruiting event from something in the Fungi kingdom. I’m pretty bad at those guys. Or, slime mold?
October 28, 2015 at 7:04 pm
I’m guessing porcupine nibbles.
October 28, 2015 at 9:17 pm
bark beetle or squash borer
October 28, 2015 at 9:38 pm
slime mold on wood
October 29, 2015 at 12:03 am
Slime mold!
October 29, 2015 at 5:35 am
It looks like tree bark that has been chewed away by something!
October 29, 2015 at 7:18 am
Porcupine gnawing on tree bark.
October 29, 2015 at 11:50 am
I give up- how about a few more clues next time like what is the magnification? we could be looking at anything from slime jellies to three week old mold on a barbecue –
October 29, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Good point!
November 1, 2015 at 4:01 pm