This sounds like so much fun, sure! I’m currently in the Kansas City area.
P.S. - not very good at observing birds for lack of a better camera.
Thank you for doing this :D
1 Like
I was confused at first, since the first profile I landed on was empty. (Is this one you maybe forgot about?) but at last I found your charming profile.
Some plants and pollinators of which you appear not to have made Observations:
- this charming bee
- this beautiful blue mud dauber
- this exquisite wild ginger
- ghost pipes, beloved by bumbles
Good luck!
Confession: I spent far too long struggling to decide if you meant Kansas or Missouri. Ultimately I decided on Missouri, with hopes that either I am right or it will not matter awfully. Whee!
- this delicate bloom with unusual (to me) leaves
- this WILD looking plant (I love doing this! I am finding species I have never heard of)
- this one that looks like purple fireworks
- summer challenge: this bright green beetle
Sorry so many are plants but to be honest, you have just amazing ones near you and I became a bit enraptured.
1 Like
Profile is @mo0nsgreenthumb
Mission accepted! 
1 Like
Oooh I’d love a challenge! I’ve got a couple in mind either before or during CNC
3 Likes
I might have been hearing palm warblers! I’ll need to confirm that.
2 Likes
Hi @liamodo! I love issuing challenges (and think I am getting a little adroit at it), however I am not clear if that is what you wanted?
This confused me. (Admittedly many things do.)
1 Like
I happened to come across the False Rue Anemone the very next day! It was an underwhelming hike for the most part, but my excitement upon finding these flowers made it totally worth it!
Thanks again, keeping my eye out for the others now…
7 Likes
I’ll happily take a challenge. The main one I already had in mind was pseudoscorpions. It’s one of the few arachnids that I havent seen yet and theres at least a couple species in my area.
2 Likes
OK! I really like how you observe all types of things, so I am giving you challenges accordingly.
- regular challenge: this swamp rose is kind of amazing, so please try to find it.
- super challenge: this handsome owl which may keep a different schedule than you.
- ultimate challenge: this oddly shaped little hopper which we have here. If you see it we will share a species! (Because it is so small, I will share that all of mine were found on Pluchea carolinses.)
Good luck!
1 Like
Great, I’ll try. Actually I’ve already posted a spring peeper, but hopefully I’ll see a second one.
I would love a challenge @ItsMeLucy!
2 Likes
Well of course!
1 Like
Oh goodness I am so sorry. I think I meant a different one. As I recall there were about 8 frog species in your area and I think you had only observed two or three. Any other new friend will do!
Hi @zlang8 ! I think your usual place of observing is Florida but I am having a bit of a time deciding where in Florida. Is there a particular coast or part of the state that is better than another for selecting species for challenges?
Oh that’s cool! - I love nature challenges, but I’ll would like an easy one…
To much going on etc
1 Like
Well, now that CNC is on, I suppose we no longer need this. Still, I wanted to follow-up on my earlier reply. I did in fact go to the salt marshes today. Didn’t find the Carolina marsh clam – I may have been too close to the ocean; the Carolina marsh clam lives in brackish water, and where I was was just behind the barrier islands, closer to full salt water than brackish. Still, the trip was a success: after discarding the images that I felt were of too poor quality, I finished with 32 observations of 31 species, several of which were lifers. One that especially pleased me was this one of Fragile Barnacle – last year’s dead stems of salt marsh cordgrass still protruded above this year’s new growth, and these tiny barnacles were growing on those dried-up grass stems!
4 Likes
I heard the palm warbler. I couldn’t make an observation because it was too far away and there is a fence around the yard so I couldn’t visit it.
1 Like
Those who want to keep looking for the personalized challenges near them are still very welcome to still do so (and I am enjoying being tagged on the finds, thank you!) but I daresay we don’t need any of this and never did, it’s only ever been just for the sheer pleasure of it.
(I apologize for the absolute absence of any response to you @seeker1000. If there was a notification for the thread I missed it but I have also been a smidge busy with a family wedding which thankfully as of 3 am is complete. Let me know if you still want a personalized challenge or just prefer to do the CNCs which as Jason notes have now started. @zlang8 I am also happy to challenge you, if you still want, needing only a bit of direction as to where in Florida, which could be a nearby city or metro area or even “southern Florida” or “the flat bit at the top” or “Gulf Coast” or “the middle bit”. Florida just seems to have be a bit sprawly?)
3 Likes
Family wedding sounds nice!
We don’t have these City Inaturalist events in Germany as far as I know…
So, if you like to give me a personal challenge, I would like to try it… - But I am not sure, if this thread maybe is only for the USA and I missed that…