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This mole cricket who i thought was a moth somehow is definitely my favourite.
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In spite of the date being first of January, today’s lifer might stay the favourity lifer of mine for this year. I finally saw an Alcedo atthis after looking out for it for years. The images are not exactly award-winning, but I’d still have posted them if they had turned out even worse: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104104553
So happy!
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I’ve observed it twice and both times got similarly amazing photos haha. They’re great at dodging the camera! Such an absolute treat to see though.
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It’s the first day of the year and I managed to find a lifer scale insect where I work! A nice way to start the year for sure!
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hmmm probably this lichen
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This minute two-spotted ladybird (Diomus notescens) popped in to help me wash the car yesterday.
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Just found this thread now, cool idea!
I had a pretty good start to the year with this darkling beetle I found under some bark:
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Found another new bird species:
Although I have seen it several times in the past when I was younger, only now did I manage to find this Koppie Foam Grasshopper and photograph it for iNaturalist:
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I took really poor pictures, so they really aren’t worth showing here, but I saw my first snowy owl the other day at Kanopolis lake in Ellswoth Co., Kansas. Apparently this was also the first iNat observation for the area, even though my grandfather says it’s lived there for a while now.
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Sure, why not. Just today, I saw this Draparnaud’s Glass Snail, which was identified half an hour after I uploaded it. As I expected, it is an introduced species – in California, native gastropods do not seem to occur in towns.
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This turtle stunned everybody in the area! Lucky for me, I was at the right place: on the other side, trying to take a photo of dragonflies (never got one though :))
I’m bending the rules a bit here and saying my favorite lifer from this week is a flock of Whimbrels I photographed in April and somehow missed uploading. I found them while looking through last year’s pictures and had no idea what they were. (Needless to say, shorebirds are not my area of expertise.) The photo’s not great, since I took it during the period between my camera dying and getting a new one, so I was using one of my older ones that had only 5x zoom. But it’s good enough to identify the birds!
I’ve seen a northern harrier multiple times this week, which I have not seen before.
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Painted Bunting, for both me AND my mother. Such a handsome little dude!
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New oak gall wasp for me. Not much else to observe during winter. Andricus amphorus from Sandia Foothills Open Space, Alburquerque, NM, US on January 29, 2022 at 02:42 PM by Elliott Gordon. Assumed Cynipid gall on Quercus turbinella · iNaturalist
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At Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, January 19th: an image of paw prints of a Striped Skunk on the sand of a small beach area:
In Carl Schurz Park, at the main bird feeder station, a Red-breasted Nuthatch, January 23rd, a very poor photo of the bird:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105457277
DECEMBER 2021
I just now realized that I did not list any lifers from my 3-week trip to Sanibel, Florida, in December 2021.
So here is one of them, the Fig Wax Scale:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102953849
And here is a rather rare sea snail shell, the Brown Baby Ear:
The leafminer moth mine shown here turns out to be from the genus Parornix, but that was new to me and a new genus for NYC, so that’s good anyway!
Finally! Something worth sharing in 2022 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108470994
I’ve never seen a live springtail ever, so this could be the first.
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