We are now two weeks into the new year and I’m curious what inaturalist ‘achievements’ have you achieved so far? Hit a personal target? Been somewhere new? Recorded a new species? Learnt to identify something? Just seen something really cool? For me personally I’ve added 12 new species to my l…

[image] rinaturalist: a lichen (which I still don’t know the species of) I think it looks like Physcia americana if you mean the white one in the center with no apothecia - but I just started with lichen myself and don’t know how many possibe look-alikes there could be, so not going to sugges…

My lifers in 2023 so far are: Caloplaca cerina (lichen) Xanthomendoza hasseana (lichen) Pogonatum pensilvanicum (moss) Cladonia macilenta (lichen) Pyxine subcinera (lichen) Bacidia schweinitzii (lichen) Plethodon cinereus (salamander) I may or may not have seen even more lichens, but not s…

I use an Olympus TG6 with an ikelite housing and a single ikelite DS51 strobe

This is so cool! I had nobidea phoresy was a thing either, thanks for sharing

HI, I spent the first two weeks on a winter break trip in the Gambia. Having traveled, worked or lived in various places in the eastern and southern parts of Africa for almost 40 years it was the very first time to visit a country on the complete opposite western side of the continent. It is always…

I managed to add a few observations for a species that only had 1 observation previously. Somewhat amusingly, this species is actually really common here. So common I just hadn’t bothered trying to get it IDd yet :laughing: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146637974 [image]

Impressive photo of a tiny insect

Excellent image of a springtail. Would you consider sharing your setup? I think there are growing number of us who would like to get good photos of springtails in natural settings.

Thanks! I have an Olympus EM5 mkii with the M.Zuiko 60mm macro lens. I also have a raynox 250 and some extension tubes I can use with it, but I don’t remember if I used them for that shot. I also recently got the MC-20 teleconverter, which really made a big difference for me, enabling photos like ht…

Encountered my greatest bird sighting so far - a group of about nine sociable lapwings! [image]

Two weeks into 2023!

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ItsMeLucy January 22, 2023, 1:57am 31

Goodness, that sounds like a wonderful trip! Welcome to the forums, I hope you will share more!

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