Sooke Hills 2025

Sooke Hills 2025


Ice, wildflowers, summer heat, autumnal mushrooms: the ongoing and predictable cycle in the Hills. Now at the end the year comes the dormancy of darkened days, and the rains of winter that'll charge up lake, rivers and the dry earth; setting us up for another round in the Sooke Hills.

view from Peden Bluff 2025-01-16, 1:12 p.m.
2025-01-16, 1:11 p.m.
looking west from Peden Bluff 2025-01-16, 12:46 p.m.
hair ice (ice wool or frost beard) formed by the fungus Exidiopsis effusa 2025-01-23, 10:25 a.m.
hair ice at Charters R. 2025-01-23, 10:29 a.m.
2025-01-23, 10:33 a.m.
2025-01-23, 11:26 a.m.
David's Depression 2025-02-12, 10:40 a.m.
2025-02-12, 10:19 a.m.
2025-02-12, 10:20 a.m.
David's Depression 2025-02-12, 10:49 a.m.
2025-02-12, 10:52 a.m.
2025-02-12, 10:53 a.m.
David's Depression 2025-02-12, 10:56 a.m.
David's Depression 2025-02-12, 10:57 a.m.
2025-02-12, 1:30 p.m.
2025-02-20, 12:30 p.m.
Nidula niveotomentosa (white barrel bird's nest) at Manuel Quimper, 2025/2/20 2025-02-20, 2:22 p.m.
Nidula niveotomentosa with 'eggs' (spore cases called peridioles); nests, 6mm diameter; insect included for scale (top). 2025-02-20, 2:25 p.m.
Sugarloaf from Gem 2025-03-04, 11:16 a.m.
Juan de Fuca Strait and Olympic Pennisula, viewed from Manuel Quimper 2025-03-18, 10:27 a.m.
Olsynium douglasii (satin flower, grass widow) 2025-03-25, 10:33 a.m.
Olsynium douglasii (satin flower) 2025-03-25, 10:35 a.m.
on top of Neil, Mt. McDonald shrouded in the mist 2025-03-25, 11:40 a.m.
Ramaria sp. (coral mushroom) 2025-03-25, 1:36 p.m.
last year's Old Man Lake wildfire damage, Black Bear 2025-04-01, 11:37 a.m.
arbutus, Black Bear 2025-04-01, 11:41 a.m.
Peziza violacea emerging from the burnt ground 2025-04-01, 11:42 a.m.
Peziza violacea 2025-04-01, 11:14 a.m.
recovery from the Old Man Lake wildfire (2024) 2025-04-01, 11:44 a.m.
Calypso bulbosa (calypso orchid) 2025-04-09, 10:32 a.m.
Calypso bulbosa (calypso orchid) 2025-04-09, 11:49 a.m.
Is this the rare Calypso bulbosa var. albiflora (white calypso orchid)? That variant has a pure white flower and tell-tail green stem. 2025-04-22, 12:06 p.m.
Erythronium oregonum (white fawn lily) 2025-04-09, 1:24 p.m.
Thamnophis sirtalis (common garter snake) 2025-04-15, 11:50 a.m.
Boshniakia hooki (Vancouver groundcone) 2025-04-22, 1:14 p.m.
Camassia quamash (common camas), uncommon white variant, left 2025-05-10, 11:42 a.m.
Mitrula elegans (swamp beacon) 2025-05-10, 12:46 p.m.
Allotropa virgata (candystick, sugarstick) 2025-05-10, 1:14 p.m.
Delphinium menziesii (Menzies' larkspur) 2025-05-13, 11:17 a.m.
Delphinium menziesii (Menzies' larkspur) 2025-05-13, 11:19 a.m.
Morchella tomentosa (grey fire morel) mushroom found in Old Man Lake fire damage 2025-05-22, 12:26 p.m.
Goodyera oblongifolia (rattlesnake plantain) 2025-05-27, 12:30 p.m.
Icmadophila ericetorum (fairy puke lichen, candy lichen) 2025-05-27, 1:02 p.m.
Mahonia aquifolium (Oregon grape) 2025-05-27, 1:24 p.m.
Nidula niveotomentosa (white barrel bird's nest) at Manuel Quimper, 2025-07-08, 11:23 a.m.
Allotropa virgata (candystick, sugarstick) 2025-05-27, 5:11 p.m.
Corallorhiza striata (striped coralroot) gone to seed 2025-06-24, 1:39 p.m.
dogbane and common wooly sunflower 2025-06-24, 3:23 p.m.
Apocynum androsaemifolium (dogbane) 2025-06-24, 3:24 p.m.
Eriophyllum lanatum (common woolly sunflower) 2025-06-24, 3:24 p.m.
Allium acuminatum (Hooker's onion) 2025-06-24, 3:31 p.m.
Tamiasciurus douglasii (Douglas squirrel) 2025-07-08, 9:46 a.m.
Monotropa uniflora (Indian-pipe) 2025-07-15, 1:38 p.m.
Monotropa uniflora (Indian-pipe), last year's seedheads 2025-07-15, 1:39 p.m.
Phaeolus schweinitzii (root rot) with fused caps 2025-08-26, 11:13 a.m.
edge of Grass Lake fire on Grassy Bluffs 2025-09-16, 2:21 p.m.
Grass Lake fire, Grassy Bluffs 2025-09-16, 2:31 p.m.
Hydnellum caeruleum (blue tooth) 2025-10-07, 12:35 p.m.
Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) 2025-10-07, 1:05 p.m.
Trametes versicolor (turkey tail) 2025-10-07, 2:07 p.m.
Sparassis radicata (cauliflower mushroom) 2025-10-07, 2:51 p.m.
Tremella mesenterica (witch's butter) 2025-10-28, 10:47 a.m.
Tremella mesenterica (witch's butter) 2025-10-28, 10:47 a.m.
Xylaria polymorpha (dead man's fingers) 2025-10-28, 10:56 a.m.
coral mushroom 2025-10-28, 11:01 a.m.
Mycena sp. (bonnet mushroom) 2025-10-30, 3:49 p.m.
Mycena sp. (bonnet mushroom) 2025-10-30, 3:09 p.m.
Mycena sp. (bonnet mushroom) 2025-10-30, 3:26 p.m.
Lycogala epidendrum (wolf''s milk, slim mould [largest body, 5mm across; right, 8 days hence]) 2025-10-30, 3:38 p.m.
Armillaria ostoyae (honey mushroom; right, 8 days growth) 2025-10-30, 4:03 p.m.
Hydnellum caeruleum (blue tooth) 2025-11-04, 1:58 p.m.
Marasmius sp. (parachute mushroom) 2025-11-04, 2:06 p.m.
Lycogala epidendrum (wolf''s milk) 2025-11-07, 4:07 p.m.
2025-11-07, 4:10 p.m.
2025-11-07, 4:31 p.m.
Lycogala epidendrum (wolf''s milk) 2025-11-07, 4:30 p.m.
2025-11-07, 3:44 p.m.
2025-11-07, 3:42 p.m.
Tremella mesenterica (witch's butter) 2025-11-07, 4:32 p.m.
Sparassis radicata (cauliflower mushroom) 2025-11-18, 11:25 a.m.
Hypholoma fasciculare (sulphur tuft) 2025-11-18, 11:59 a.m.
Nidula candida (flowerpot bird's nest) 2025-11-18, 12:31 p.m.
2025-11-18, 3:43 p.m.
2025-11-20, 12:51 p.m.
Sparassis radicata (cauliflower mushroom) 2025-11-20, 1:18 p.m.
2025-11-20, 1:19 p.m.
2025-11-28, 2:23 p.m.
2025-11-28, 2:24 p.m.
2025-11-28, 3:19 p.m.
2025-11-28, 3:40 p.m.
Lycogala epidendrum (wolf''s milk) 2025-11-28, 3:33 p.m.
Lycogala epidendrum (wolf''s milk) 2025-11-28, 3:15 p.m.
Lycogala epidendrum (wolf''s milk) 2025-11-28, 3:22 p.m.
Lycogala epidendrum (wolf''s milk) 2025-11-28, 3:11 p.m.
Mycena sp. (bonnet mushroom) 2025-11-28, 3:59 p.m.
Mycena sp. (bonnet mushroom) 2025-11-28, 4:12 p.m.
Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (spirit gummy bear) 2025-11-28, 4:23 p.m.
2025-12-28, 11:09 a.m.
Mount MacDonald 2025-12-28, 10:48 a.m.
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