The unexpected finds

My problem is that I don’t know what is unexpected, so nothing is really a surprise (ok I would be surprised if I found a polar bear :-), I expect that all the things I find are known to be here and can be identified by somebody, and I just have to ask. So I am surprised, to say the least, when I observe two species which have probably been here all along (indigenous) but no one has yet recorded …

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&subview=grid&verifiable=any&field:Observation%20group=2351193

https://inaturalist.org/journal/tony_wills/18799-the-hunt-for-the-missing-puffball

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