I’ve had some funny iNat-related experiences and it made me laugh to think of how many positive, and often quite funny effects my usage has had on my life. Go ahead and finish the topic title sentence with your own endings. Here are some of mine to start: You know you’re seriously into iNat when …

[image] calebcam: you educate random people on trails about how jumping spiders are harmless, cute and fuzzy Hey, I do the same thing! I have one problem though…they always throw back at me the fact that every time I try to get a picture of one, it’ll jump/attack me, lol. I have nothing to ar…

I get rats eating my chicken food, and last time I saw them I ran inside to get some iNat pictures before chasing them off and moving the bowl.

Every walk you go on looks like this on your observation map[obswalk]

…you seriously consider how to get everyone across the globe to team up for some family or genus observing so that you can spell Hi, iNat! in the same color observation pins (different places can do different colors or I guess colours) across the whole map.

when the last thing you do before going to bed is check the front porch light

[image] mira_l_b: (different places can do different colors or I guess colours) Definitely colours, I’m not sure what a color is… :crazy_face:

[image] lm77: Definitely colo u rs, I’m not sure what a color is… :crazy_face: I believe “Colors” are endemic to the U.S., so you may never have encountered one. :grin:

My personal goal is to see if I can make a line of observations from Spokane, Washington to Boise, Idaho under the smallest tiles (the last scroll before the red tiles change to the red points). Secondly, I’m trying to cover my entire county full of these red tiles, though I suspect I’ll have to ch…

When you’ve made probably 90% of the observations in your neighborhood as well as maybe 70% in the several trails, neighborhood blocks, and parks surrounding it. And when you are the top (and almost the only) observer at several city parks in your area.

…you have the most observations, species, and IDs of a large group (springtails). …you find 100 iNat firsts …you make over 1000 observations in a day (so far only once) …you don’t let constant torrential rain stop you from making your daily observations

You know you're seriously into iNat when

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lm77 July 14, 2020, 10:44pm 654

Definitely colours, I’m not sure what a color is…

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