The temperature in my area is currently -17 degrees C, and feels like -27 degrees. (I don’t know what that is in Fahrenheit, but water freezes at 0 C, and my freezer is set at -19 C). So it’s cold - though I’m sure there are plenty of iNatters who live in much colder areas! Last week it was warm en…

In the Salish Sea we are more prone to getting stranger invertebrate visitors from the deep during the winter so I push myself to still brave the cold a few nights a week. I tend to spend more time looking at really small things in the water in the winter because with the water emptier it is easier …

My favorite winter sport is chasing arthropods on snow: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/arthropods-on-snow I generally have good luck finding arthropods on snow when the temperature is -10C to +3C, especially on fresh snow in the woods. When it’s colder, I go looking for tracks in snow. Or ex…

Doesn’t turning over logs or rocks in the winter (in cold climates) disturb the creatures that are hibernating there? Can frogs and salamanders reliably survive such disturbance? This winter I haven’t been doing much outdoors, but instead have been trying to hone my plant identification skills in …

“Marcescent” was an interesting word I hadn’t ran into before. I don’t think our language (Finnish) has a word for that. Ofc, some dialect might have and there’s plenty of those. But yes, I do those as well. :slightly_smiling_face:

Yeah I suppose if your area is consistently below freezing with snow on the ground it would be much harder to do, I also was experiencing logs frozen to the ground yesterday. Another thing that might work is putting out birdseed and a bowl of water on a deck railing or somewhere birds will see it. I…

In my area of NY, we are also getting hit with the huge snowstorm as well. Many places are closed and the temperatures have been below freezing for weeks now. [image] So obviously I’ve just been inside IDing. I’ve been doing cheetah, lion, serval, caracal, hyena, and palm squirrel IDs. I’ve also …

We’re going to be up to a foot in the next 24 hours or so. Not to mention the frigid temps

Yeah, apparently this storm beat the Blizzard of 1978 (12.2 inches) in Dayton, and it’s still snowing!

That’s a new word for me as well - an English-speaking botanist!

What do you iNat in winter?

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joeylikesbirds January 25, 2026, 11:38pm 31

Wow!!

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What do you iNat in winter?

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