There is something (circled) hanging out with the Hogchoker in my photo from yesterday at Hart Springs Park in Florida. I have no idea even where to begin to get it ided or even if it is actually life but I think it is. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/283131098
This one from 2023. Discovered what is probably a Smooth Turtle Leech after getting home and seeing the photo on the computer.
You should link to your observations so people can check them out (and possibly help with the ID’s)
Done. Thanks for the suggestion.
Found a springtail in my photo of a buttercup and amazingly got a species ID!
Took a quick shot of a Ganoderma applanatum not even noticing the millipedes on top for months.
G. applanatum : https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/278661998
Paradoxosomatidae? : https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/278869616
Pine Wood Tree Frogs hiding in plain sight. Look for one in the 1st two photos. Look for 2 in the 2nd.
This is so cool.
While going through my photo-library to find any I haven’t yet uploaded, I found this image of a polychaete… But there are two other lifers in there too! ^^
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/287032251
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/287032255
Nope! This one is tricky..
That’s the only insecty thing I can see.
Let me try again.
Goodness I found it. It was much more obvious. But won’t put the answer here so more can try, no spoilers.
I was adding annotations to my obs the other day, and noted a clear shot of a beetle on the flower. Needless to say, check that I had not added it, duplicated and made a new obs.
Another:
Took a snap shot of a flock of Red Bishops, and after uploading a user pointed out a Buffy Cut-throat Finch in the mix.
I think there’s three, even. Looks like there is one hiding behind one of the “branches”, but I’m not quite sure
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been out in the field, snapped some photos of something interesting, only to get back home and realise there was something cool hiding in plain sight when i look back through my photos. Especially so because I do a lot of birding (so photographing things at a distance) and snorkeling (reefs are very chaotic and busy, easy to miss things)
One example from this year that I think stand out to me is my cryptid-esque shot of a white-faced storm-petrel while taking photos of an indian yellow-nosed albatross. I’d seen and photographed plenty of wilson’s, and while I had a feeling I’d seen a few white-faced, they’re so tiny and easy to miss pass the waves that I wasn’t sure. Lo and behold, hiding behind an albatross in a few photos.
I think the example I was most simultaniosly frustrated and excited by was this nudi in the bottom-left photo of this crab. I’ve always got a huge soft spot for them, they’re one of the animals I’m most excited to see when snorkelling, especially when it’s a species thats new to me (as this one was). However in the moment, I was so focused on this much-larger-than-average rock crab that I completely missing the nudi right in front of me… until I looked back through my photos. In my defence there was a bit of a swell which makes it hard to focus. But man.
In a general sense though, it’s something I use to my advantage when I’m out birding. I tend to only bring my camera, not binoculars, so I snap photos of something in the distance, like the far side of a lake, then zoom in on the photo on my camera’s screen to see whats there :P
(And if anybody wants to weigh in on the genus of the Mystery Mutt, please feel free. If I can get enough of a consensus, I’ll break it into its own observation.)
