Because of the rainfalls and humidity, the park has not only turned into a rainforest but also has become a mini-gallery of the Creator's art exhibitions.  The diversity of morphology and color is amazing.  A few photos of the same set of mushrooms were taken on different days.  Some grew and changed their face shapes like teenagers.  A dark-colored large mushroom aged fast and seemed like a man who stopped shaving and getting haircuts.  

While we are cautious about picking wild mushrooms, birds, squirrels, or insects appear to have a good knowledge of which ones are edible to them.  One mushroom looked like a left over apple with half being bitten away.

 Recently a friend pointed out a tall dead tree being converted to a bird apartment.  There appeared to be multiple levels and a diversity of residents.  Red-bellied woodpeckers live on upper levels.  The outside wall showed some interesting drawing patterns looking like Martian language to me.  European starlings occupy lower levels.  A brown-colored bird claimed residency in a middle-level unit.  House hunters like downy woodpeckers and Northern flickers come by regularly to visit and check out remaining units.
Both the red-bellied woodpeckers and European starlings had babies or youngsters.  The little ones are always hungry and stick their heads out.  The parents are constantly going back and forth bringing food home and taking the garbage out.



Recently pointed to by a friend Danny Mo, I saw a tall dead tree being converted to a bird apartment.  The tree is located on the left side passing the Prospect Street entrance of Brightwood Park, right outside the fence of the nearest house.  There appeared to be multiple levels and a diversity of residents.  I have watched the tree holes for about a week.  Red-bellied woodpeckers live on upper levels.  The outside wall showed some interesting drawing patterns looking like Martian language to me.  European starlins occupy lower levels.  A brown-colored bird claimed residency in a middle-level unit.  House hunters like downy woodpeckers and Northern flickers come by regularly to visit and check out remaining units.

Both the red-bellied woodpeckers and European starlings had babies or youngsters.  The little ones are always hungry and stick their heads out.  The parents are constantly going back and forth bringing food home and to take garbages out.

Recently pointed to by a friend Danny Mo, I saw a tall dead tree being converted to a bird apartment.  The tree is located on the left side passing the Prospect Street entrance of Brightwood Park, right outside the fence of the nearest house.  There appeared to be multiple levels and a diversity of residents.  I have watched the tree holes for about a week.  Red-bellied woodpeckers live on upper levels.  The outside wall showed some interesting drawing patterns looking like Martian language to me.  European starlins occupy lower levels.  A brown-colored bird claimed residency in a middle-level unit.  House hunters like downy woodpeckers and Northern flickers come by regularly to visit and check out remaining units.

Both the red-bellied woodpeckers and European starlings had babies or youngsters.  The little ones are always hungry and stick their heads out.  The parents are constantly going back and forth bringing food home and to take garbages out.

Recently pointed to by a friend Danny Mo, I saw a tall dead tree being converted to a bird apartment.  The tree is located on the left side passing the Prospect Street entrance of Brightwood Park, right outside the fence of the nearest house.  There appeared to be multiple levels and a diversity of residents.  I have watched the tree holes for about a week.  Red-bellied woodpeckers live on upper levels.  The outside wall showed some interesting drawing patterns looking like Martian language to me.  European starlins occupy lower levels.  A brown-colored bird claimed residency in a middle-level unit.  House hunters like downy woodpeckers and Northern flickers come by regularly to visit and check out remaining units.

Both the red-bellied woodpeckers and European starlings had babies or youngsters.  The little ones are always hungry and stick their heads out.  The parents are constantly going back and forth bringing food home and to take garbages out.

 The summer this year has come with plenty of rainfall.  The heat and the humidity have created an ideal environment for fungi to sprout and grow.  In the past few weeks, just walking on the trail surrounding the large pond of Brightwood Park, I saw a variety of them.  Some are colorful like opera performers and others are like ballet dancers or gypsy dancers.  I particularly marvelled at red jelly fungi.  They seemed to be here for a special exhibition, appearing one day and gone the next day.  The patterns looked like work presented by designers.  Some looked like cute stuffed animals.  Others were like a touch of the magic brush in an artist's hand.  

If you are interested, you can look for a clown face wearing a chef's hat in one of the polyporaceae fungi.  You can also look for two slugs crawling among dried up red jelly fungi.

I included a few pictures of the sun shining through the woods and spraying the light on tree leaves.  These were taken this morning, before the police department announced closing the park because of coyote sightings.

Also included is the recording of the dancing performance by a psaudopollenator using a flower as the stage.