Platform: Windows 11 App version number, if a mobile app issue: n/a Browser, if a website issue: Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/59831-Loranthaceae https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality…

Thanks. This now makes sense. I can’t see those observations for annotation because a user has blocked me. I didn’t think of that. Happy to accept this as resolved now.

is there really a bug here? in the Identify page, uncheck reviewed, and check the casual filter.

As far as I know, casual observations don’t show in the Flowers and Fruits chart. But the numbers (17 each month) also don’t match the casual observations, which are zero for January and five for February.

[image] afdexter: casual observations, which are zero for January and five for February. when i said check “casual”, this assumes that you started with your link above, which also checks “needs id” and “research”. checking all of these will get all observations. in February, there are 12 tha…

[image] pisum: in February, there are 12 that are needs id or casual + 5 casual = 17. This, perhaps, is where the bug is. If I select Casual + Needs ID + Research Grade to annotate for flowers and fruit (&without_term_id=12) in February, I see only 5; the other 12 are not visible to me. If I …

[image] afdexter: Can someone also clarify whether Casual observations show on the Flowers and Fruit chart? they are. this is the request: <a href="https://api.inaturalist.org/v2/observations/popular_field_values?taxon_id=59831&per_page=50&place_id=cc29ae85-7efc-47c0-9271-4032a624ab45&unannotated=true&fields=(controlled_attribute%3A(excepted_taxon_ids%3A!t%2Cid%3A!t%2Clabel%3A!t%2Ctaxon_ids%3A!t)%2Ccontrolled_value%3A(excepted_taxon_ids%3A!t%2Cid%3A!t%2Clabel%3A!t%2Ctaxon_ids%3A!t)%2Ccount%3A!t%2Cmonth_of_year%3Aall%2Cunannotated%3Aall" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://api.inaturalist.org/v2/observations/popular_field_values?taxon_id=59831&per_page=50&place_id=cc29ae85-7efc-47c0-9271-4032a624ab45&unannotated=true&…

Thanks! That’s great to know. Some of my best phenology records are on planted mistletoes, so I would hate for them to be missing from the chart. At the same time, I note that if you use the link from the taxon page to annotate, it excludes casual observations by default.

Can I please note that this bug remains unsolved? Certain observations are not visible to me for annotation. The separate answer about whether casual observations appear in the phenology chart does not address this.

for what it’s worth, this is what i see (17 observations) when i go to https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&taxon_id=59831&without_term_id=12&month=2 : [image]

Phantom observations for annotation

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Cultivated plants included in phenology graphs (or cultivated plants excluded in filtered Explore links on graphs) Bug Reports web	16	1294	February 9, 2022
Casual observation not showing up in Identify even when 'Casual' selected Bug Reports	6	127	August 6, 2025
Casual observations used inconsistently on taxon page Bug Reports web	3	568	January 6, 2021
Observation not showing in 'explore' and project Bug Reports	8	330	June 24, 2024
Allow users to hide casual observations from phenology graphs Feature Requests	12	376	April 29, 2026

Phantom observations for annotation

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