Has liberty cap season started early?

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1. Better off asking in r/beacain! Seems a month too early to me but I am not an expert 😅

2. It’s the weather I think. Here in Galway it’s been dull, wet and cool for a while

3. I don’t think those are liberty caps – no nipple. I have seen yokes that look like that before in the same fields but out of season. Be careful.

4. They look more like Haymakers, Liberty Cap have a little nipple on top.

5. Someone in Sweden was posting on the shroomID sub last week with a handful of libs so perhaps. They don’t look like libs though

6. https://preview.redd.it/s1qn82ya3agd1.jpeg?width=840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90da415b305ee29f4efedeb09ab558b02eaf74b9

   They definitely are Liberty caps

7. Ohhh dat’s bold.

8. Someone going to fly 🫣

9. I spied a few in Wicklow last week.

10. Golf course, South Kildare, covered in them last night

11. Nice one, might take a spin up Kildare and Wicklow on the bike, I got a few in rathcroghan in Roscommon

12. They look like Brown Mottlegills. Libs have nips!

13. It’s time to take a trip…..

14. https://preview.redd.it/z90nshtp0bgd1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d8785dfd6c06ea9d344c155b35e57476ba00860

    Came across a few myself on the comeragh the other day but think it’s probably just a early flush after the mediocre summer, heat last few days has most likely stopped them again. Will be watching like a hawk though 🙂

15. They look more like these : https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/brown-mottlegill/

16. If the grass is long , the soil is heavy in nutrients and the dew is right , caps can start as early as June. My garden is full of them when I don’t cut the grass.

17. It’s nice to have a mushroom stir-fry which makes all diners not want to go to war and murder people.