Sometimes, while going about our daily lives, we run into something new and it’s just a simple thing, but look at that! Something you’ve never seen before! Maybe you’d read about it or saw it on tv or heard about it from someone, or maybe you have no idea what it is and have to spend some time googl…

Yesterday I was out on a walk in my area, when I spotted and heard a bird in a tree I was approaching. I stopped and waited to see what it was. I saw a very small glimpse of a pretty bird that I had only seen maybe once before. I think it was the Eastern Spinebill. Unfortunately it was too quick to …

Exactly two weeks ago, I was panning along vegetation, and found what I thought was just a juvenile springtail. But after uploading it onto INaturalist, it turns out it is Sphaeridia pumilis, a very small globular springtail that only has 32 observations on INat, and mine turns out to be the only on…

While looking for dragonflies last week I spotted a moth that looks like a bird dropping. I have seen photos of them. It’s not something you can really go out and search for. This one turned out to be an Olive-shaded Bird-dropping Moth. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/290941208

@Tangent_Spinner , a couple of things: 1 Welcome to the forum! (for 3 days ago) [Screenshot 2025-06-26 at 11.14.16 AM] 2 Re: the link that @oksanaetal shared, it only has 1 click at the moment, so you might not realize its significance. There is an existing thread that is very similar to this th…

Ah! Thanks for the welcome and for the info! You’re right, I didn’t realize that! Should I leave this thread here then?

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oksanaetal June 26, 2025, 3:56pm 4

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