First post in a while on forums, and first time in a while I have visited too. Hello again! Today while I was on a nature walk I noticed something and got very excited over it when I had first seen it. Here is a picture of roughly what I was looking at: [IMG_4433] Looks very interesting and rare…

I got tricked while identifying stuff by these sculptures popping up in the unknowns. Had another one that was ID’d as Plantae and I tried my hardest to narrow it down to a genus but it turned out to be human-made garden decor. I think that observation may have been deleted - can’t find it any more. …

I’m sure there have been plenty of times I have seen a tree stump or leaf in the wind and thought it was a bird. And cords and hoses I thought were a snake. But what comes to mind was an opposite situation. Something I thought was trash but was actually an animal. I was at an aquarium store and thou…

Bungee cords in the road can look amazingly snake-like, especially those that have a color pattern. I’ve IDed at least one I’ve seen at night to species, only to find it wasn’t a snake at all.

I got tricked by some of those fake hawks people put on roofs to try and scare other birds away, lol. I was super far away from the rooftops in question, so I couldn’t see that they were fake until I’d opened the pictures on my computer…

Nice story! I have the same story during my first week here at iNaturalist. I really got excited thinking I spotted some unusual and exotic white fungus (after being under the influence). Imagine my disappointment after using Seek that it cannot pinpoint the species. It might very well someone caref…

Schrödinger ’s snake: Is it a nope rope or just nope, rope?

You’d be surprised how many people think pistachio shells are clam valves.

i do this with the sound of a keychain on my own bag. looking around, wondering why the squeaky sound stops when i stop moving… i usually realize it’s not a bird now. usually.

so many times i thought i saw a colorful flower, but turned out it was just some littered napkins :sob:

I got tricked today

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wildmaven August 14, 2022, 4:16pm 13

Hilarious!!!

I followed the sound of a bird I’d never heard before, only to discover that it was some woman’s squeaky flip-flop.

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I got tricked today

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