As winter sadly approaches, I keep wondering what I will keep myself busy with during the cold months (especially cold where I live, I think it reached -42 degrees last winter), besides schoolwork. Being a birdwatcher, there are some things I know I want to do and birds I know I would like to see. …

Here in Massachusetts last winter I had fun finding galls, mainly on bare oak trees… every walk I would try to spot one of the usual galls. It might have driven Megachile crazy, (sorry) but it gave my nature time some purpose, like a scavenger hunt. I have a lot of old observations that I can also…

When I lived in an area with a cold, snowy winter I’d have fun looking at the wide variety of animal and bird tracks left in the snow, practice plant ID for dormant plants, look at what gets blown over the snow, etc. Also, being a naturalist means looking at and learning about a lot of on-living th…

Grab a mug of your favorite warm beverage and get some IDs in!

Winter is a time to get out and enjoy the woods. It’s summer that I avoid being outside. Too hot and humid. And only getting worse.

Glad I live in South-Western Australia (Perth). Winter/colder months are for birds and plants, Summer is for fish!

I really enjoy the woods in the winter. No mosquitoes, the poison ivy is dormant (still have to stay away from the vines though) and there isn’t any fighting for a parking spot at the entrances to the various places I go. I can walk all day in the cold if I’m dressed for it. Tree ID is a fun game in…

generally the same as the rest of year given I mostly photograph birds and wildlife. I actually look forward to colder months as there are less people out in the parks, reserves, and beaches. Vegetation is much more sparse and so easier to spot birds and wildlife as well.

I do slow down during the winter… but I don’t think there’s any deficit of things to document. One of the great things about iNat is that unlike an ID book, which typically only gives a couple of pictures of a given thing during its best time, you can get many examples of different species and how …

Right now - August in New England - I’m tired from the summer! SO much to do, so many places to explore, so much to learn, so many technological problems to overcome (my moth traps aren’t working, my printer decided to run out of black ink this morning when I needed to print something, my router/mo…

Naturalists, what do you do all winter?

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bobasil August 25, 2023, 1:37pm 31

Just like South California, my area gets all the rains during winter and everything botanical starts growing and blooming, and the animals are more adventurous during the day.

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Naturalists, what do you do all winter?

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