soowavey1's Identifications

Large swimming bird, dark, iridescent feathers, reddish bare patch on face, two feather crests that in some views look like horns. Long neck with a distinct kink.

Stretchy white ribbon-like fungus on hardwood. hairy shelf, zoned longitudinally, bumpy between zones. Fertile zone is poroid with irregular maze-like pattern, veins, ribs

This is the Bahamas subspecies

Teasel blooming.

Seems to be living in the backyard man made pond. Among the rocks surrounding the pond.

male ruby throat.

Large swimming bird, dark, iridescent feathers, reddish bare patch on face, two feather crests that in some views look like horns. Long neck with a distinct kink.

So many on GCU campus

swamp sparrow?