There are a lot of creatures that never make it onto iNaturalist because I often open a day hospital for bees and butterflies and even largers in need of A Moment’s Care.
Once it was super cold here (it does happen, at least by our standards, hahaha) and we found a small friend sort of stuck just inside our interior patio and a Ferruginous pygmy owl just outside finishing off another friend. It was a HORROR show, so we brought the too cold amigo inside and put him on a heating pad on low to warm him slowly.
When he was warm enough, he blinked twice, then yawned and stretched and then cutely dashed to the ceiling. He slipped out through the window that evening.
A few months ago an unwell possum fell from the high garden wall and unfortunately one of its legs broke so that the bone came through the skin. We delivered her to the zarigüeya project at UADY. Sadly she had to be euthanized however she had two small babies aboard and these were placed successfully with a surrogate to nurse and likely have already been released near Xmatkuil (where the veterinary school of UADY is). This one was a hard one.
Day before yesterday at a local hospital I found a lovely darner dragonfly in a stairwell on the third floor and demanded my husband assist me (not hard, he is the same) in gently capturing it so I could carry it in cupped hands down the stairs, through the halls and out to the street to release it where it ought to be.
I am not sure this makes me a great naturalist, as I am loath to let nature take its course, but these little moments make me happy and I have become quite proficient at helping the insects, especially. (They are the quickest.)