It’s in focus. The bird is in the center of the photo. That’s good in my book.
To be fair, not many passerines have that combo of rusty breast + dark back feathers
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I need to add this one to the list https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/184831426#activity_identification_38e1c335-fbce-4752-adf7-4b4594b6ed07 Since I’m 90% sure it’s a merlin (there’s a pair of merlins that live there and frequent that tree), but the photos are so bad that people think it might be a Buteo. I would be very surprised if that were the case, but stranger things have happened!
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This is one of the worse I have. I always felt that my pictures were bad quality, but after seeing some of the pictures on this topic, I don’t feel as bad.
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I was very pleased when this Red Fox went RG. I believe that the red dot in the corner was all my phone camera could pick up from a distant street light.
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Looks like a gray fox to me…
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Was the fox driving that car coming towards you? ;-)
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I ID’ed that one a few months ago, haha. As previously mentioned, robins are very recognizable, and I also have a similar (but worse) RG picture of one of them:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127023161
The white ring around the eye is distinctive.
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While I’m back here, here are two more horrible photos that are research grade:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71979021
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72128023
Back then, I wasn’t really focused on getting good photos…
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185660726
Here’s a new photo. It’s very blurry but it’s easy to identify.
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Reminds me of this photo: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176353658. It’s also of a dark bird in the sky. I saw it in real life very well, but I unfortunately only had my phone on me at the time. It is somehow RG.
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A terrible terrible picture:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/186244510 I promise to re-order and put the nice one first if it makes it to RG.
A birb on a branch,
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185485630 I have hope that someone else than me thinks it can be ID’d at a finer level than “birds”
Last one, because skinks can be funny, a nice rolling shutter effect:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/184981578
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If the photos in this observation aren’t the worst ones I’ve uploaded to iNat, they are at least almost certainly on the top 10 list: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/94077801 .
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This was 100% a bear, but I was like maybe 300 feet away from it so my phone was fighting for it’s life to take this picture lmaooo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171656478
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One time I posted a decoy thinking it was a real duck 
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I’ve almost done that lol, some of the places in my area have these fake canada geese in the water and I have to take a good long look just to make sure 
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I have a lot of terrible pictures but the worst one is probably this Turtle Leech, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92801467 especially the second image where it looks like I’m pointing at the leech instead of holding back a blade of grass. Also very blurry since my phone camera was not cooperating with me.
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170710679
This photo could’ve been an amazing macro shot… but it’s out
of focus
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Might as well be my iNat catch phrase. The smaller you shoot, the more frustrating it gets!
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