Happy Accident!

I have a bush in my backyard that every year gets A TON of pollinators, this year even more as the heat wave here in CA meant a lot of plants bloomed early. However, many of our native bees weren’t really out yet, and now that they are out there are a lot less things blooming. It is hard for me to get good photos though as the honeybees are usually really aggressive so the bees are moving a mile a minute haha. I was able to capture a few not that great photos to post to inat that I posted yesterday. However, reviewing them today noticed that I actually caught a second one of the bee I was trying to ID haha!

(Photo of the insect I was trying to observe)

( Top left little photo bomber of the insect I was trying to observe haha)

Interested in knowing if anyone else ever observed something by accident while trying to observer another organism?

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Anton, this happens quite frequently! Here is a long thread about it:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-hiding-in-other-observations-share-your-examples/

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