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…

Maybe worthwhile to post a link in Trash talking: Strangest Things? to this topic? I got duped by a rope too, my “snake molt” . I think my favorite so far is @OlinLathrop ’s survey whiskers (best guess).

this was a big letdown for me: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66884328

I stalked a least tern for quite a while in Tampa Florida, trying to get closer to it for a photo as it was completely out of season. Finally I realized it was one of those decoys they put on the beach to attract nesting terns.

I had a similar issue but was a different species. So i am trying to photograph every species on the planet of everything and one day this year I saw what looked like a Snow or Ross’s Goose in a group of Brant canadensis. Got closer and it was a Mute Swan!!! a species i already had photographed. A m…

that sucks man i got bamboozled by a fake coyote decoy lol

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…

I got tricked today

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account120 August 14, 2022, 2:03pm 4

Haha! I will for sure link this on that trash talking topic. Thank you for telling me about that!

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I got tricked today

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