An event last year interested me to create this thread… One morning when I logged into iNat, I saw that someone from Texas, whose observations I had been following, was currently on a trip in the Florida Keys. I’ll keep the name hidden as I don’t know if the person would appreciate this or not. “Th…

[image] graysquirrel: One time I was crawling around under some bushes looking at slime molds and ended up coming face to face with someone doing the exact same thing from the other side of the bush That’s hilarious :rofl:

Grand Canyon. North Rim. I was shooting some galls in some bushes just outside the lodge entrance. A woman came up to me and asked if I wanted help identifying the plants I was looking at. She used to use iNaturalist a lot, but then her daughter introduced her to Seek, which she finds “even better”.…

It would be fun to meet iNatters but the only ones I’ve met are ones I’ve PMed beforehand about an observation and then met them later. One of them is part of our park surveys now and we met on here, and another was hesitant to do iNat but is now hooked and has a DLSR now for insects. I think I’ve…

I recommend getting an inat-branded cap or shirt if you haven’t already - it makes it much easier for other inatters to recognize you and approach.

Still waiting for this to happen, but I’d love for it to happen!

Last Summer/Fall… I noticed an individual bending down over an insect with a camera in a parking lot at Palo Duro State Park(Canyon, Tx USA). I had to ask…yep, iNatter. Some time later, I saw an individual photographing a plant…another iNatter. I enjoyed a great conversation with both persons. :…

Last year I attended a fern workshop in a different part of my state. Nearly everyone was an iNatter. It was great to meet so many people whom I recognized by username. One of the people works near me and we have chatted via email about difficult indentations, but it was the first time we met in per…

No random encounters with other inatters I already new online, plenty with naturalists from other naturalist fora I have used in the past. Always good fun :-)

This fall I went to the California Naturalist conference and ran into several iNatters that I had seen observations from but never met. A couple of times during outdoor talks I ended up trying to take pictures of the same pollinators coming to the flowers around the patio area as some other iNat use…

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derrell_d March 23, 2023, 9:47pm 15

I recently purchased an iNaturalist hoodie. It does get noticed. :)

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