Now up to four species of feather leg assassin bugs. I think this might be the first record in this territory. Ptilocnemus pallidus
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/336506000#activity_comment_b80eb101-526a-4381-a120-05d413c19926
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/336506000#activity_comment_b80eb101-526a-4381-a120-05d413c19926
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Rhyothemis variegata. This is the dragonfly I decided to ID during the IDathon because visually it was easy to recognise, to find it was an Australian taxon mess. And last weekend I finally came across one. Subspecies beatricis due to the small nodal spot. Only problem is the subspecies need to be confirmed by DNA studies.
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All-time bird lifer!
Eurasian Treecreeper: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/336664900
I heard these fellas in the past, but never got this close to one. (never had the camera required to take a proper bird shot, too)
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Aww! Treecreepers are some of my favorite birds.
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Bald eagle!!! I was talking about them all week just to see one on my weekly bird walk! This is the first time one has been spotted in my area which is super cool
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Watch out, little vole! That fierce bald eagle just above you has his eye on you!
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Perfectly timed that post 
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337228290
Another All-Time Bird Lifer! (3rd this year)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337228290 Syrian Woodpecker
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I saw some sycamore seeds (not sycomore) on the snow. I’ve known what a sycamore seed ball looks like for decades, but this is my first ob of them on iNat.
Found my first syrphid maggot on a bok choy leaf. It was probably there to eat aphids.
I’m not counting the Barronopsis texana as a lifer, since it may be the same species that was identified only as Ageleninae when observed on the web. Though I’ve seen another spider identified as Agelenopsis.
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You must have good eyesight! I would have mistaken that seed for an insect, and I never would have noticed that little green guy on the bok choy.
Either that, or you’re so seriously into iNat that you regularly check your produce for observable organisms?
Someone should start a Found on Produce project. There doesn’t seem to be an existing one (except one for Fungi found in grocery stores in NYC)
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After seeing lots of observations in my area, but never getting lucky myself, I have finally found a black swan today! :D
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I have several!
This julid millipede, probably either Ophyiulus or Julus (couldn’t get a good picture of the setae, so it’s indeterminate).
This probably quite rare bagworm (Luffia lapidella, maybe?).
And two polyxenids, both less than 5 cm apart on a piece of mortar: the first one, the second and more visible one
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