Identifiers - what do you ID, and how can observers make it easier to do so?

For sure, but it’s important to remember that most people aren’t aware of this. I certainly wasn’t until some folks on iNat told me. While it can be frustrating to write (or copy and paste!) this kind of advice over and over, I think it does break through to a lot of people. We’re all here to make each other better naturalists. BTW, there’s a video you can link to that has advice about mushroom photography, although the photography section is after some other advice about finding mushrooms.

I try to ID snakes, and at least here in California, you often need to get a few detailed shots of the heads of garter snakes in order get them IDed to species.

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