Salamanders of any kind. Do I have to look under every log in the forest? Seriously though, I like the idea of a Nemesis List. Now that I’ve been on iNat for a full year and photographed everything I saw, it is time to find the gaps and work on filling them!
2 Likes
Time of day and cloud cover can really make a difference.
1 Like
I made a lot of observations of Cedar Waxwings last year, but I haven’t sighted a single one yet this year. Bad luck?
2 Likes
And patience 
This was the first year I had an abundant and diverse native bee population in my yard, so the parasites will show up. Neolarra especially looks cool.
1 Like
Hedgehog somehow evades me in Austria, although quite common and even in cities. Haven’t even seen as a roadkill
1 Like
You’ll hear the cranes long before you see them. Unmistakable, so an audio recording makes for a very fine observation.
2 Likes
Probably ducks. I know they’re around but I feel like I just never really run into them as much as everybody else does. I used to see them fly over my house when I was growing up and I don’t live very far from where I grew up at all and yet I barely see them. Even when I go looking for them I usually just find geese instead.
1 Like
In my area, coyotes and foxes are often seen, but I have never been lucky enough to observe them. I am never at the right place at the right time.
3 Likes
I guess I can add all ducks in Sri Lanka, with the exception of the Lesser Whistling-duck that I have seen quite a number of times, and often in abundances of more than 200!
2 Likes
Wow! I can’t even imagine seeing that many ducks all at once. I get giddy over just one.
1 Like
EDIT: yesterday I saw a Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) and this fills the gap :)
How quickly the list shortens!
1 Like
Don’t you have mallards anywhere in the city? We’re getting 1-2k of them at winter on the river at one park, through whole river it’s probably closer to 10 thousands.
1 Like
Usually in multiple separated flocks of 10-50, not all at once :)
Still REALLY thrilling though :)
1 Like
Some people here in Cape Town have had some luck in seeing caracals this year (including some kittens at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens). I haven’t had the luck yet.
I also still haven’t yet seen Cape Clawless Otter, honey badger, Cape porcupine, klipspringer, or genets (I saw a roadkilled one near Villiersdorp, but I was riding with someone else as the driver on the highway, so I could not ask them to stop for me to take a photo as observation). I’d be thrilled to see any one of these!
Local bird species commonly observed that I haven’t yet seen:
Cape Longclaw
European Bee-eater
Cape Rockjumper
2 Likes
Sometimes in the winter, yeah. Not a lot ever though. Usually when I see them it’s in the creek across from my house and there’s only a handful of them. Sometimes I hear them and I try to go out and look and they’re gone already. Maybe they just hate me.
2 Likes
I heard that there are african penguins in that area. Have you ever seen african penguins?
Lots of times, yes.
2 Likes
Bonxies! There is over 50 observations of them in Shetland and I am yet to get one. Unfortunately, they have all gone down south for the winter. So, I have to wait a whole half year for them.
One species that doesn’t migrate however is otters. Still waiting to see one of those, I have found evidence of them (cracked open sea urchins) but I haven’t found the otter itself.
1 Like
What are bonxies?
2 Likes
Squas (Stercorariidae)
2 Likes