Your geese observation is not affected on how you posted those deer, you can add only one obs for geese flock and 2 obs for mother and fawn (with picture of them together in both).
I spend a lot of time doing life stage annotation of aposematic insects, some of which tend to cluster, and have come to some realizations that guide how I do annotation. In short, I only add a life stage annotation where ONLY ONE life stage is shown across the ENTIRE observation (whether in a single photo, or across multiple photos). The benefits being…
a. When you filter by life stage, whether it be in the photo browser, or in Identify, only photos of your desired life stage show up.
b, When you look at the Life Stage chart for a taxon, you get unique peaks for nymphs and adults, but the grey line of unannotated observations also becomes relevant, as it represents observations of transitional periods where perhaps more than one life stage is shown (egg and nymph, nymph and adult, adult and egg, or adult and nymph) or where perhaps an insect has immature coloration or is teneral.
c. If you filter on “Without Life Stage=Any” it’s a way to bring up all those transitional observations (Unfortunately, note that “Without Life Stage=(specific)” is broken right now: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2950 but I’m optimistic this can and will be fixed.)
So, in some cases NOT filling in the field can be as important as filling in the field. I’m not done cleaning this taxon up yet as there are thousands of observations I still need to go through, but it looks like it’s cleaning up nicely, so I’ll offer it as an example of what annotating in this fashion can look like: from https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/55556-Oncopeltus-fasciatus
Maybe a better, but perhaps less glaring example from https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/56756-Murgantia-histrionica:
Want just observations of M. histrionica that show more than one life stage? Now it’s easy to find them and explore what those little peaks represent: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=research%2Cneeds_id%2Ccasual&taxon_id=56756&without_term_id=1&month=9&place_id=any
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I posted the geese as a group, but only one is fully visible, because the others are feeding with heads in the water.
It’s fine! I mean, you can one with all heads visible, all you want.)
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