Wow, what an impressive haul of lifers. If you have time, would you explain how did you make the Life List chart?
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I am iNat green with envy. Especially as the ice has just appeared this morning in my birdbath!
This, this is how lottery tickets get sold.
Well … in reality, I made this trip as a retirement present to myself. I meant to go in 2020 when I retired but good old Covid got in the way.
I had my first frost this morning, too, and then it’s been drizzling and spitting snow off and on all day. I’m already bored and there are at least five months of winter to go.
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Definitely! It was something that iNaturalist generated, though the link to get a pop-up box like the one in my post only appears when a user has more than five (?) life list firsts on the same calendar day.
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Go to your Observation Calendar:
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Pick a day:
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Click on the ‘View All #’ box:
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Thank you! That is a great tutorial‼️
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I take frequent visits to the Florida Keys and I got to see several new lifers last weekend!
My favorite were the Florida Tailless Whipscorpions that I found under rocks:
I also got to see American Flamingoes!
As well as a cool moth:
and an Oak Woodlouse:
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Just wanted to say, although I never posted in this thread, as I barely manage to upload my observations close to observation date, so they would always be outdated, I enjoy your post so much, looking at your lifers. Keep them coming!
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As long as the observation date and locality are accurate, there are no rules on iNat that they be uploaded within a certain amount of time. I’ve seen observations that were made decades before they were posted here!
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And also I’ve posted things in this thread that were definitely not from “this week” that I just never got to upload or highlight. Although this thread is for recent photos, I doubt there would be any issues with you uploading outdated photos.
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As others said, definitely jump in and share. When I am around home its easier to post lifers. When I travel I take ages to process everything, so like on my last trip in Colombia the weeks I posted were at least several behind.
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The conditions in the Netherlands are perfect for the fruiting bodies of many fungi. I don’t think we have had more than one and a half minute of sun per day for the past few weeks. It is raining a bit every day (or more than a bit). The temperature is not too cold, not too warm, although the autumns are warmer. So I found great fruiting bodies I haven’t found before.
This is my favourite one, and although common, I had never seen it before and it is so pretty!
Witch’s butter (Tremella mesenterica)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189761729
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The week of spookies didn’t allow me much time to take photos but I manage to get a couple lifers most notably:https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189473842
This american bird grasshopper (bad photo because i was hiding my phone while taking the picture at school lmaooo)
Also a southern flannel moth caterpillar:https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189382182
and this yet to be ID’d weevil which was my favorite:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189789185
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Today. November 3rd, Ontario, Canada. (FYI: cold.)
Yes, all the bugs and such have just about been frosted out and I was feeling a little desperate. So around noon I took a walk in… my local cemetery.
I’ve walked this before and it has always been interesting what you see crawling around the headstones. (And okay, it makes for easy shooting.)
Maybe it was poetic justice for the seasonal die-off, but I found something that I thought was dead, and possibly deformed by frost. But…
Not so! And not only that, my identifiers were very excited as one had never seen one of these at all before. (Only 6 previous obs in the province iNat list.) And it probably wasn’t dead – just pretending to be bird poop.
And here she is, direct from her gravestone perch (stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive)… Mastophora hutchinsoni, the Cornfield Bolas Spider!
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@broacher That is one unique looking spider, and the more I look into it the more amazed I am. Great find!
There was a storm on Thursday, causing a fair amount of damage and unfortunately casualties. I probably shouldn’t have gone out the next day, but to be honest I was starting to go a bit loopy from being stuck inside all week.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many birds at that spot (Chabaud-Latour in Condé-sur-l’Escaut). All the neighbouring swans and cormorants seem to have taken refuge there, the redwings and birds of prey were out in full force. I messed up a lot of photos, missed every single kingfisher and green woodpecker despite seeing a lot, but I managed to take an (admittedly pretty poor considering how many there were) picture of a species I’d been chasing for a while now, a European siskin.
I really need to spend time to learn their behaviour, right now it seems like they’re just madly scrambling from tree to tree without ever stopping.
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That is the cool thing I always liked about the cooler season - one starts to notice the less noticable organismsuch easier … and some of them are pretty cool. Amazing find, congrats!
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a nice frog (sadly, endangered):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190251495
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Not that recent ( I saw it about a month ago) but figured some might be interested in this red Bufo Bufo that I found under a log.
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This week I was able to go for a hike in a local old growth forest. Unfortunately because the season is winding down I was not able to get a lot of plant observations, but there were still some fungi growing that I was able to observe that were new to me. One of these fungi was this Late Oyster (Sarcomyxa serotina)
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Nothing much.
Only lifer this week was a spotted nutcracker. Don’t do much birding these days, though, so quite pleased with it nonetheless. Rather rare autumn / winter visitor in these parts.
Best part was that it was perfectly content to forage on the ground with me watching less than ten feet away. I still have no real camera after losing it in New Jersey last month but at that distance even a cheap cellphone can get somewhat acceptable shots.
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