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
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.
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)
Aww! Treecreepers are some of my favorite birds.
Watch out, little vole! That fierce bald eagle just above you has his eye on you!
Perfectly timed that post 
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337228290
Another All-Time Bird Lifer! (3rd this year)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337228290 Syrian Woodpecker
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.
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)
After seeing lots of observations in my area, but never getting lucky myself, I have finally found a black swan today! :D
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
It has been a bit since I have had one (perils of observing in the same area over and over) but then three days ago, behold: Nyia pilatei, a camera-shy bee fly with a coloration to assist his resistance. (There are only thirty Observations of this species but likely it is not that rare but rather that naturalists get frustrated or lose it among leaf litter.)
I don’t have a photo, but I saw my first Ruffed Grouse last week!
Well, I could post a lifer for the bat I observed today, roosting up by the ceiling of our museum conference room. But without a zoom lens on my cellphone or a large step ladder, the photos I took aren’t nearly good enough for a species ID, so I think I’ll pass on the opportunity. It was still surprising and entertaining to see.
I’m told a motion sensor alarm went off, this weekend. I suspect I now know the culprit. 
I was taking a walk with my kids today and suddenly I saw a few crested birds up in a tree next to the small stream that runs through our tiny neighborhood park. They weren’t cardinals and they weren’t blue jays and they weren’t tufted titmice. I pulled out Merlin and I moved in for a closer look. They were cedar waxwings! I saw at least six of them. Sadly, I didn’t realize that Merlin had updated and now you have to save your recordings manually. I had several recordings and lost them all so now all the proof I have are sad phone photos. 
I had just gone low-key birding with a friend on Saturday and she mentioned how everyone else has been seeing cedar waxwings around but she had never seen one. I told her I hadn’t seen any in Oklahoma either (although I had seen them commonly as a kid when I lived in Michigan). I immediately texted her and it turned out she saw some just yesterday!
I hadn’t seen them either until recently! Now I’ve seen them a few times, AFTER seeing observers all around me posting obs of them while I was wondering what was wrong with me, having seen over a hundred species in Arkansas already.
Oh, I hadn’t realized that about Merlin. That explains a recording I thought I had lost recently. I would much prefer it if the saving was automatic and the deleting was manual, like before.
Hurray for cedar waxwings!
Yes! I absolutely agree. At the very least it should be obvious/have a big warning. I was still happy to see the birds though! I’ll try to go back today and SAVE the recording if they are still hanging around. I don’t have a good camera so sometimes audio is my best bet to get ID-able evidence for birds.