Congrats! I wish they had better results reintroducing Aplomado falcons to southern NM.
I like the idea of marking weeks! So, it was 01.08-08.08!
2 dead Thick Shelled River Mussel a globally endangered species, but I bet it’s common in this river, though finding whole shells is really hard. And so well known as introdued species, and one having so little observation in natural range Zebra Mussel.
Chorthippus dubius with only 9 observations so far, 3 of them from me, whoa, people have to start paying more attention to grasshoppers!
Just to add something weird, tons of Waterlily Leaf Beetles.
Then a list of first moth observations for the region (Ryazan Oblast): Lesser Black-letter Dart, Summer Fruit Tortrix, Common Crimson-and-gold Moth, Plain Wave, Six-striped Rustic, Gold Spot, Dog’s Tooth (what a name!), Lunar Thorn Moth and finally Campion.
For this week’s Favorite Lifer highlights, I am going to list three of my new lifers for today, Wednesday August 11th, all three found in the northeast part of Central Park:
Four-spotted Clover Leafhopper, Agallia quadripunctata
Mating robber flies, Machismus sadyates
A rather blurry image of a fly genus that I think is new to me, Gymnoclytia
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A bit late, however better late than never!
A couple days ago I did a moth sheet and my top find is probably this:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90762835
I thought it was an absolute beauty!
I do also have another find which I mark down as incredible:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90762689
I don’t know if you can get dark forms of this moth? A good 30 minutes after this find I found something like this however it was brown instead of that peach colour. I didn’t get a photo of it because it landed & before you knew it took off.
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Depends on how dark, but yes, most of them are not this pretty beige! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89839871
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Week ending August 8, 2021: The smallest, tiniest tiny frog/toad that I have ever seen. It’s not colorful but very cute. I believe it’s a canyon tree frog, nothing else seems to be a good match. Well…Hold a minute! A “challenging” discussion about the identity of this critter has started in the eobservation page:
Now I know whom to contact when I need to identify bees! 
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This is actually my lifer Anthophorula bee. Last one proved to be Diadasia. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91202441
I saw a dead leaf on the floor earlier today. Wondered how it got tracked in there but didn’t think much of it, maybe someone just had dirty shoes or something. But then I looked a little closer and realized that it was actually not a leaf, it was a friend! :D
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Starting my new lifers this week early, on Sunday, August 15th.
When I went for my daily swim at my local city pool here in NYC, I found my first ever Spotted Lantern Fly in the pool:
Then after lunch I went to Central Park near the 106th Street entrance on 5th Ave.
I did good with finding a lot of small moths at the edge of the grassy slope there. Here is a Yellow Slant Line, new to me, and only the second iNat record so far in NYC:
Here is one that is only a second find of this species for me, and only the 6th record for NYC, a Common Tan Wave:
This one is a first for Manhattan and only the 7th so far for NYC, a Bold-feathered Grass Moth:
And I found this amazing beetle with antennae that are several times the length of the beetle’s body, a Hippopsis lemniscata:
!
I believe I also found two plants that were lifers, but I will wait till I get confirmation of the IDs on those.
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Week 09.08-15.08
Best one is Large Marsh Grasshopper
A pretty big Yellow-barred Peat Hover Fly
And some moths: not popular on iNat Pale-streak Grass-veneer and Double-striped Tabby, and well-observed Pale Oak Beauty, Turnip Moth and Cabbage Moth.
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I am not sure what this bee species is, but I know for a fact I have not seen it before!
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New lifer today (21 August 2021) - Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk!
I saw a pair: a female and her rather comparatively small mate searching for a good tree to build their nest - or rather, the male sat back while the female swooped around to scope her ideal location.
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22-28 July 2021:
This Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88257454 my first bird lifer since the end of April!
This Yellow Palm Dart (Cephrenes trichopehla): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88242452 (I have seen it before but this is my first photograph of it)
This Stenotus sp. plant bug: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88895853
The mosquito Mansonia annulifera: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89879541
29 July - 4 August 2021
This Coleosoma sp. Spider: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89861620
5-11 August 2021
This Pedunculate Ground Beetle: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90733975
The Common Evening Brown: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90732424
12-18 August 2021
This absolutely enormous Tarantula hawk: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92348967
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Nice formatting! I did not know that collapsible lists could be done here.
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It is the Hide Details option within the Gear symbol
Oh, new week! August 16-22
First observation of Manchurian walnut.
First seen: Frog Rush, Greater Dodder, Glechoma gall wasp, Great Stonecrop, Silverberry and cute Nodding Beggarticks, but would like to find less invasives!
19-25 August
This Tumbling Flower Beetle of Genus Hoshihananomia: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92348193
This Red-Spined Millipede (Xenobolus carnifex). Seen before but first photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92543813
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August 26th 2021. I did really great recently with fining new things.
Yesterday I was at Rockaway Beach, and found a broken shell of the Atlantic Razor, new to NYC:
Also a nice moth on Camphorflower by the beach:
On last Saturday I was at Randall’s Island and with help from @zitserm I found a strange fungus, Coprinellus Sect domestici:
And a good cricket, Say’sTrig:
On Tuesday 16th I went to Governors Island for the first time and found Prostrate Vervain:
And Slender Snakecotton:
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