Curious, and curiouser! For me, brief, very incomplete but unique observations are a hauntingly strong motivation source.
What was that? Will I ever see it again? What are the possibilities?
Sometimes, it could be years later, you assemble enough new clues to these cold cases that might emerge and suddenly it clicks. That MUST be it!
A most satisfying (and yet maybe, melancholic) feeling.
I don’t quite get the point of this comment.
I found very interesting little rove beetle this week I’m unsure about the ID that I added, but it’s definitely a new kind for me.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266309616
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-your-favorite-lifer-from-this-week/24219/2500?u=isopodguy
Oddly enough I found a second scale insect today, although I think this one was dead.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266422711
I found a bunch of lichen lifers. I don’t know what they are, but I know that I haven’t seen them before. :D
Wow I’m not a bug guy but that thing is dope. Makes me think back to my one trip to the tropics (Colombia as a little kid) and the feeling when I saw a blue morpho.
I can relate to this lol. I inevitably find myself holding my breath when I’m taking macro shots of something good (which usually means I end moving and ruining the pic when I finally take a breath 
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This Pulmonaria dacica; the Dacian/Danube lungwort
(or, as POWO calls it P. mollis mollissima, but that’s debatable).
Not only is a very nice shade of deep purplish blue that is very difficult to capture on camera, it also belongs to one of the more gnarly plant families, most members of Boraginaceae posess several types of stiff hairs, and this one is no exception. Despite its currently accepted POWO name (mollis is soft, mollissma is softest), the leaves are still quite rough and sandpapery, as befits a Borage.
The true mollis is actually quite soft, as its trichomes are less stiff, and much denser.
1 new lifer found yesterday, and my favorite duck species! :)
and two more this afternoon! How come I never noticed these before??
I find a number of them I would otherwise not see because they are being attended to by ants, so keep an eye out for ants where you don’t necessarily expect them, like congregating on a certain plant.
Alive or dead?
I’m not sure how to tell, but I thiiink they were both alive.
Could it that they appear seasonally in your area (in this case at the beginning of spring)?
The second one was quite obviously dead, if they were not in those conditions they are likely alive.
These ones looked much like the first, so probably alive
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266134423
I got a new least observed species from this fairly unassuming fungus, with the only other observations being halfway across the world. Certainly a pleasant surprise
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266133473
And a more common one, my first mimetid. I hadn’t seen a hanging egg sac like this before, it was quite exciting
This Dalmatian moth https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266927721
I got a cute little spotted owlet, my first owl! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266854068
I have a few, because I just got back from a trip
Orange-crowned Warbler
Eared Grebe
I haven’t gone through all of my pics yet so there may be more to come…
