I am finding hosting and tasking with a pink cap mushroom, all I get is ducks and mice.  I find nowadays to get anything spotted in your own garden you have to plant a shoom and superfood.  It never used to be like this.  I am looking for kingfishers at the moment and there is only one possible garden I can spot in as it has a shoom and superfood, all the other gardens have pink caps and if I was to sit at the computer for 24 hours I might find one.  What has happened to the game that we cannot spot anything anymore?

Check the gardens on the left side where it was recently missed.
You don't 'need' a supershroom to attract it if you look at the plates in other gardens.

I am talking generally Dominique, you used to be able to spot the critter advertised on a pink cap mushie, but you can't now, its all ducks and mice.  I am spending far too much gold and getting nothing.  It can't go on like this for much longer, I haven't the time to sit and stalk for one critter for ages and ages

Pink caps are my go-to mushroom. They don't use valuable forest seeds for purchase and last a long time before ready for harvest. Here are the results of a platter of cake that I just cleared using a pink cap: thirteen birthday froogs and two birthday mice. I think that is a darn good average for the birthday froog especially as it is classified as very rare. Now nine of them were missed but the platter was there for people who were looking.

I’ve been noticing it too — I have a fully grown pink mushroom cap and am getting tons of mice and mallards

pink caps used to be good, as Mary said they do last a long time, but they are no good if they do not produce the goods.  I think if you do the level 1-10 they might be ok but anything else its just mice and ducks!