September 18th, 2007
Mushroom Observer
Here’s something that might be of interest to those who enjoy studying and photographing fungi. The Mushroom Observer is a citizen science type website where participants can post their observation records and photos of fungi. I’ve just had a very brief tour of the site, but it looks very good. As soon as I have a bit of spare time (ha!), I’ll try to post a few of my records and images. One nice feature that seems very useful is a means of posting “unknowns” so that others may help with identification. I have a couple of fungi that definitely fall into that category, so must give that a try. I would think that the Mushroom Observer has the potential to be to fungi, what Bugguide.net is to insects. Anyhow, I hope the site will be of interest to some of you.