# Download observations with flowering phenology fails: field is empty **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [September 14, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/download-observations-with-flowering-phenology-fails-field-is-empty/35515 "2022-09-14T14:30:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrtnlowr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mrtnlowr/32/6890_2.png) [@mrtnlowr](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mrtnlowr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/download-observations-with-flowering-phenology-fails-field-is-empty/35515/1 "2022-09-14T14:30:42Z")
Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can. **Platform** (Android, iOS, Website): Website **App version number** , if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): **Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome **URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: **Screenshots of what you are seeing** (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: [https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/](https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/)): ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/3/b/3b371e960335db3ae848e1621aaa913060542487.png) **Description of problem** (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): Step 1: From Filters drop-down of taxon observations select ‘download’ and build a query as below: Step 2: quality\_grade= **research** &identifications= **any** &place\_id= **97389** &taxon\_id= **438708** &verifiable= **true** **Columns** id, observed\_on, latitude, longitude, geoprivacy, taxon\_geoprivacy, scientific\_name, field:flowering+phenology Step 3: wait for query to complete, then download the results I know the field ‘flowering phenology’ is set in many records since I have spent an hour or so adding annotations to many of these, and other, records. ---
**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/download-observations-with-flowering-phenology-fails-field-is-empty/35515/2 "2022-09-14T15:20:43Z")
It looks like these observations have the Annotation set, but no observation fields. Annotations can’t currently be downloaded with the export tool. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/2/d/2de04eec66b90fb1a0280361c0c747aa88e21c4b.png) ---
**Author:** ![mrtnlowr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mrtnlowr/32/6890_2.png) [@mrtnlowr](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mrtnlowr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/download-observations-with-flowering-phenology-fails-field-is-empty/35515/3 "2022-09-14T15:32:40Z")
Can they be downloaded via the API? ---
**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/download-observations-with-flowering-phenology-fails-field-is-empty/35515/4 "2022-09-14T16:02:18Z")
Yes, in a few different ways. But if you only want information on the observations that are annotated flowering, you can filter for those in the Export tool. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/e/d/edbaef9c14732805070bcc4bed7390e6b80675e9.png) The export won’t show the flowering annotation as a column, but it only includes flowering observations. If you want to use the API, you can search the forum for “API annotation” to get some ideas, e.g. [this topic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/code-to-extract-annotations-from-exported-json/31950). Implementations will vary depending on your preferred language and output format. ---
**Author:** ![mrtnlowr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mrtnlowr/32/6890_2.png) [@mrtnlowr](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mrtnlowr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/download-observations-with-flowering-phenology-fails-field-is-empty/35515/5 "2022-09-14T17:14:34Z")
Many thanks. Managed to get the [code in Observable](https://observablehq.com/@robin-song/inaturalist-api-example-1b) to do what I need. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/download-observations-with-flowering-phenology-fails-field-is-empty/35515/6 "2022-09-15T17:26:29Z")
Closed on September 15, 2022, 5:26pm UTC