Im based in Chile and mostly matching with the top 10 species in the country u.u wish I was more special
my top 10
and chile top 10
and chile top 10
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A lot of these tend to be things I love taking photos of, Salmonberry has wonderful flowers, the Thimbleberry is my favourite native Rubus, Anna’s Hummingbird and Great Blue Herons are things I go out of my way to take photos of as soon as I see them, Osoberry and Seaside Peas are wonderful native plants, and Cat’s Tail Moss is a very evocative looking native moss (Makes everything look mysterious and whimsical).
American Crows and Canada Geese (as well as Seagulls and Feral Pigeons) are some of the most common birds you can spot in the city just about anywhere.
Finally, the Yellow Shore Crab is super easy to spot if you know just where to look, and they’re very variable so I tend to like taking photos of them!
Plenty to think about! Thank you for putting forth such an interesting thing to think about!
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Please, how do you make your top 10 picture list? I suspect this is quite obvious, but I have not discovered it. 
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Uhmm… it’s easy to recognize the first one seen in a year, but how do you know which one is going to be the last?
We’re just posting the top two rows of our “species” tab.
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My great favorite Species are : N.Red bellied Sliders; Eastern Box Turtles; True Toads; Sphinx Moths; King Snakes; Otters; Foxes; Raccoons; Opossums; Owls; not necessarily in that order…
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I used the “snip” tool to copy the first two rows and then pasted it in to the forum.
Obviously I don’t know in advance, which is why I end up with several photos near the end of each fall.
It does at that. I managed to get a right-place-right-time shot of a baldy hunting prairie dogs yesterday. 
On the desktop site, hit the top tab “Your Observations” then on the dark gray bar, click “species”. It should come up with the grid. Then screenshot, and post! :D
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It’s so interesting reading the stories behind everyone’s top 10. Mine is an amalgamation of beings that are both easy to find/photograph (Daurian redstart, Barn Swallow, Hyla japonica, Trametese versicolor), those I enjoy (Bombus, Apis) and things that I was convinced must have been a different species or variety, or couldn’t accurately identify despite uploading it over and over again (potentilla, Prunus, Corydalis )
I tend to photograph every Bombus ignitus I see, but my trend is to stop photographing things I see often unless it’s a particularly nice photo or appeals to me for some other reason. Bombus seems to be a favorite among everyone and I know why <3__<3
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Thank you everyone for the tips about capturing my 10, especial ItsMeLucy, who actually sent me this screenshot 
I’m a bit surprised to see the herons at the top. Yet, they are easy to photograph and easy to ID.
@Megachile and @NancyinSunnyvale nudged my interest in the very diverse forms of oak gall wasps.
The fence lizards are so plentiful in the summer that you see them every couple hundred yards.
Hummingbirds are my favorites from childhood on and they are year-around residents near the foothills.* I live not far from Mt. Umunhum, which is one of the Ohlone Native words for hummingbird.
*Ditto mule deer.
I try to resist making obs of mallards and squirrels, but I simply cannot resist - especially if I’m not having good luck getting good photos of other species.
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Yes, thanks for help finding these!
The lady beetles do not surprise me. I’m fascinated by the different patterns… and I’m a sucker for “lunchtime” shots. Spiders are good hunters.
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What I’m curious about is how you have English common names for 9 of the species and a Spanish common name for just 1.
I assume this is because I live in MX thus the platform utilized that local common name even if I used iNat instead of our local platform (Naturalista), even with language set to English.
(Or perhaps the ducks quite prefer it. 
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huh! Dunno
It shows I spend most of my time in either woodlands near human habitation with slight degradation (the trees and the nettle - unlikely to find horse-chestnut away from human habitation!) or human habitats (ash and sycamore again, butterfly-bush, fleabane, and also the nettle). It also shows, most importantly, that I like ragwort.
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Lots of very common creatures in my top 10. I think it could easily be all waterbirds if I didn’t restrict myself, as they are so common to my area and I like walking near rivers, lakes and canals. I also do try to record the common species I see, as well as the rarer ones.
The Asian Lady Beetle is not because I’m trying to observe it - but that every time I see a Lady Beetle I am hoping to find one that is not H. axyridis!
I do have a fondness for crows and will always look at members of this family.
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