New National Park. Managed 75 observations and 96+ “life firsts” in calendar view including this species that I have identified many times online. Meet Keckiella breviflora aka gaping bush beardtongue:
My snorkelling Sunday brought me another lifer, actually a lifer class :-)
It was buried in the sand and I stepped on it. I don’t know who got the biggest fright.
Torpedo marmorata https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177060733
This week I have been on vacation along the Saint Lawrence river, this is not my first time going but it still has brought me a lot of new lifers. I think one that stands out to me though is this smallmouth bass because I was able to get clear enough photos of it from the dock to upload, which is unusual. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176957546
I was lucky enough to get a whole bunch of lifers in the last week, partly because I was able to travel to an area I had never observed in before (Wachusett Mountain, Massachusetts, USA). Here are some of my favorites/most memorable/rarest I was able to spot:
Working through the backlog continues! I forgot about all the new species I’ve found and I’m remembering them now. It’s like finding them all over again :)
Black laceweaver spider - I’ve been observing spider species for years, trying to id them etc and had never even heard of this type of spider - when I first saw it I immediately thought of tigrosa wolf but it had some different colloring that I had never noticed on tigrosa like the white bands on legs in close to the body. Pretty cool to find a species that may not be even unusual in your area that you have no idea even existed. BTW just got Sarah Roses spider id book - AWESOME!
This might be an undescribed species; I suppose it could be Gliophorus psittacinus but the coloration is wildly different than the specimans of that species that I found on this same trail. Waxcaps are one of those groups of fungi that is poorly understudied in the US, so I’m really curious about the DNA results on this one.
I know they are somewhat widespread. But definitely saw some nice big and complete ones when I was around the Golden Bay area, especially based out of/around Collingwood to Farewell.
I couldn’t tell all the lifers I got during the summer because of how many different trips I went on. I spent 10 days in Hawaii and visited lots of places in Colorado, doing 4 camping trips and climbing a 14er, I was swamped with things to do. so here’s all the lifers I got throughout this summer.
