# What are your favourite observations ever by someone else or yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Nature Talk\ **Tags:** observations\ **Created:** [July 29, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065 "2026-07-29T00:59:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![im-a\_cat-purrson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/im-a_cat-purrson/32/74959_2.png) [@im-a\_cat-purrson](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/im-a_cat-purrson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/1 "2026-07-29T00:59:59Z")
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/382438141](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/382438141) Midland Painted Turtle, because I like reptiles. [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/382419736](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/382419736) European Ambersnail, because it was the first unusual snail I ever saw live in wild. [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/386118761](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/386118761) Ringed-billed Gull, because it was so close. ---
**Author:** ![AdamWargon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/adamwargon/32/44649_2.png) [@AdamWargon](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/AdamWargon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/2 "2026-07-29T01:12:35Z")
> [@About the General category - please read before posting!](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/about-the-general-category-please-read-before-posting/61/1): > > The iNat Forum . . . Posts should aim to start a productive conversation or resolve problems. > > Before starting a new topic, please **do a quick search to make sure you’re not duplicating an existing topic**. [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/favorite-observations/](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/favorite-observations/) ---
**Author:** ![im-a\_cat-purrson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/im-a_cat-purrson/32/74959_2.png) [@im-a\_cat-purrson](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/im-a_cat-purrson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/3 "2026-07-29T02:41:46Z")
Oh…. I always forget to check the rules. ---
**Author:** ![tom\_reichner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tom_reichner/32/68613_2.png) [@tom\_reichner](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tom_reichner)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/4 "2026-07-29T03:12:31Z")
> [@AdamWargon](#): > > [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/favorite-observations/](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/favorite-observations/) But that thread was closed and locked 7 years ago, so it makes sense to me that a new thread was started. This whole thing of closing and locking threads seems to cause a lot of problems, such as the need to start so many duplicate threads. ---
**Author:** ![jaegermeister](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jaegermeister/32/75188_2.png) [@jaegermeister](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jaegermeister)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/5 "2026-07-29T03:41:13Z")
Favorite Underwater Observations: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380434277](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/380434277) and [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/324513845](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/324513845) ---
**Author:** ![danly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/danly/32/42066_2.png) [@danly](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/danly)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/6 "2026-07-29T13:01:39Z")
This is my favorite observation by another user. I don’t know how I came across it, because I don’t ID birds. I must have been IDing a plant for them, and looked at their other observations; that’s a good way to find interesting things! [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216401026](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216401026) ---
**Author:** ![nyenyedzi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/nyenyedzi/32/67600_2.png) [@nyenyedzi](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/nyenyedzi)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/8 "2026-07-29T14:59:42Z")
At the moment it’s this one: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361921501](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/361921501) Gorgeous and misleading! @AdamWargon surely a new topic serves us better than a seven-year-old closed thread? I have to say I’m not a fan of having to read through a hundred messages that are out-of-date just because… ---
**Author:** ![myrmepropagandist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/myrmepropagandist/32/73820_2.png) [@myrmepropagandist](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/myrmepropagandist)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/9 "2026-07-29T22:12:07Z")
I love this photo because it shows the scale and drama in the lives of ants. I think I’ll draw this one. [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9325733](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9325733) Another observation that meant a lot to me was this one that I found after reading an article about how _[Solenopsis geminata](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/67596)_ was eliminated on Tiwi island (it was an introduced fire ant.) So this might be the last observation of this ant in this location… but the person posting it didn’t know that. So I told them. I hope they see it! [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95501626](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95501626) My own observations are more mundane. I saw a nuptial flight of tiny _[Solenopsis molesta](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/69540)_ in the middle of a busy street in the Bronx. And ants really inspire me with their resilience. I was picking up trash on the median and found them under a bottle cap. [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/379518393](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/379518393) Life is everywhere! ---
**Author:** ![rainjellyrose42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/rainjellyrose42/32/75048_2.png) [@rainjellyrose42](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/rainjellyrose42)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/10 "2026-07-30T01:17:58Z")
I’d have to agree with you on that one. :/ Two months also seems like a very short grace period. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-favourite-observations-ever-by-someone-else-or-yourself/83065/11 "2026-07-30T03:20:09Z")
To be clear, @AdamWargon is not a forum moderator or an iNat curator. He doesn’t make decisions about how long topics should stay open, or if they close automatically. I think he’s just trying to be helpful. > [@rainjellyrose42](#): > > Two months also seems like a very short grace period. It’s the default that Discourse sets. For the most part I think it works fine. IMO topics like “what’s your favorite observation” and “show me photos of [x color] organisms” aren’t really what the forum is for. The forum is for constructive conversations. But people seem to like these more “list”-y topics that have no definitive conclusion and they’re generally not a moderation burden, so they’re here. If they become an issue, we can revisit them. ---
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