I’ve hit over 6,000 observations on iNat, and yesterday I broke my previous July 19 2023 record of 151 observations with 190 observations!
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I guess I’m more of a ‘big picture’ observer.
I hit my 7th out of 8 kingdoms this year!
(Thanks wild grape mildew!)
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What is your eighth?
I have the 4 big ones.
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Heading for 2 million IDs !
(that is NOT me)
Cannot find my starting date but November 2022 will do.
I am determined to work thru the Cape Peninsula Needs ID. Wading thru ALL the families now - but I draw my line after Family!
Up to taxon specialists then. Met Five Spots today.
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The seventh was Chromista, and it was provided by Plasmopara viticola, or Grape Downy Mildew.
Back in June I was browsing for bugs amongst the massive wild grape vines in the neighborhood park and noticed a very strange white powder clinging to some of the new fruit. A little detective work back home and there I was, with a whole new kingdom!
Last piece of the Kingdom Pie? Archaea. I think my best bet there are vernal pools and luckily, there’s quite a few of these in my area – and already a great discovery resource.
I haven’t made any microscope observations yet, but I might just need to for this last one.
Hmm… Just learned that virtually all of the methane produced in our digestive system comes from microbes in the Archaea kingdom. Observing the flammability of a collected sample might be all I really need to complete the Kingdom Come Challenge! (Not with a whimper, but a bang, as my brother would say.)
Anyone care to pull my finger?
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Lovely find! Congratulations! 
I was counting Chromista as part of the big 4
We have a kelp forest in the Atlantic (another one for my Unobserved list!)
But I do have red tide and Sargassum
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My milestone is very selfish: I’ve completed four years of streak.
The other numbers are not very impressive, since I don’t travel much and am mainly interested in animals. I try to get at least half as many IDs as observations - and I started to annotate all my own observations and some that I ID.
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Now that is impressive!
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Thank you :-), but not really. Other people go out with their dog every day. This was not much different. I often went to the same places, though I can’t say that I always saw the same things. It’s amazing that I still find new stuff. But having not been able to travel this year (except day-trips) it made life more interesting.
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hit 20k id’s today :) Haven’t been out much the last couple months but been trying to ID more
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recently got 7k ID’s. It was on 6999 and I did one more and I kept refreshing but it didn’t load. I added more ID’s and it came out as 7005 ID’s! I only needed a little more patience!
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195 observations!
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Wow. And here I was thinking my 41 day streak was a lot. Haha
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Today I reached 50,000 IDs in the genus Eristalis :)
(I noticed I was close so I perfected it for the screenshot!)
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Awesome stuff Matthew!
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I recently hit 5000 observations with this observation of a Hairy Woodpecker. I also just hit 12700 annotations and am almost at 25000 identifications!
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