These posts are strong encouragement to me to post more observations. I self-censor about ~20% of the photos I take in the evenings because of light/motion/focus issues, and ~5% of the photos in general for being over ambitious - like shooting a frog at the bottom of a pool.
Sometimes, I get desperate to post and that leads to this - my worst post yet.
Some of the photos here are hilarious!
One of my more recent ones is probably this un-IDed small bird. Getting good pictures through binoculars is a lot harder than I expected.
The absolute worst one that I can’t identify is probably this picture of a bird from the bottom. I’d really appreciate if anyone managed to ID this one, but I doubt it’ll happen anytime soon.
It’s my turn to contribute to this thread 
It was the 1st time I’d recorded this bird (Motacilla cinerea) in my garden… and inevitably, the autofocus of my macro lens caught the trees in the background 
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/246771836
Thanks to the birdwatchers who confirmed my observation in spite of everything!
I’ve read again and again (and again and again …) how bird identifiers can reach a species ID with only a few blurry details to go on. This bird observation of mine has been at Class Aves for more than a year, suggesting the quality must be horrendous for no one to be able to get it to a lower taxon … 
Now that’s just silly. I mean, what birder couldn’t at least tell that it is Passeriformes?
I’ve just gotten into photographing arthropods this year, so I’ve got so many photos that don’t have enough detail for even a halfway-decent ID. I’m getting better with practice, though.
This one’s pretty bad - I pulled it out of the background of another photo.
This one I took standing on tiptoe and holding the camera at arm’s length, so all things considered it came out about as well as could be expected.
I also end up with a lot of images of tiny plant schmutz - I’m not 100% certain this is alive at all, for instance.
But for actual worst photo, I think my top contenders are this photo of a mallard:
Or this one of a baby bunny, taken from my car in a rush while waiting at a stop sign:
But…it is unmistakably a whirligig beetle and a valid and useful observation!
Cool aesthetic nonetheless.
I’m very surprised that noone has IDed it up until now, especially how prominent and knowledgable birders are at knowing their birds on iNat. So many field marks are on show there. It has been picking at my mind for the day now so I had to give a shot at the ID. I’m almost 100% sure it is an Amur Stonechat, from looking at pics on both iNat and eBird.
This photo of some Brown Boobies in Tampa Bay.
Yes, it’s a bad tree picture ;)
i love how long this thread has been going on for. keep 'em coming!
Your username is very ironic here…
I’ve taken quite a few barely - if at all - identifiable photos of birds.
trust me, it ALWAYS is… 
Superorder Acariformes
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/257355381
This is a new worst photo and I think it will remain as “needs ID” forever, or at least, for very long time.
World’s worst fox photo!
Observation link with punch line: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/259088625
