When you tend to walk the same way to your work building from the carpark so you can check out the local meat ant holes in the grass because they are the best weather forecasters for a decent downpour in the next couple of days. Yes, it has been a wet weekend.
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When you know some random stuff about one species and kind of assume it applied to related species but then end up questioning that and end up going down a rabbit hole…
Hyena genitalia.
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When you start looking up a new species after someone kindly IDed it for you and actually try to find articles that give proper ID information.
And get frustrated that many of them describe weird and unusual male genitalia but don’t describe the probably just as interesting female genitalia. The inherent bias towards the male of the species is infuriating.
Unless you are a spider. Those little guys don’t attract anywhere near the same attention that the flashy females do.
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you get honked at because you’re taking photos of birds in a parking lot
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You get stopped by the police because you are staring at a house with binoculars (there was a cool hawk there, OK?) 
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I thankfully don’t have many houses around where I live, only my own. However, when I went to my grandparents house in a city, I did feel a little weird pointing my camera in the general direction of a house.
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Yup, relatable…
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You know you have been into the IDathon when a co-worker is wearing these short little Xmas antlers and your first thought is that they look like spider pedipalps. No, I did not tell her that :)
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When your brothers are having the Christmas Eve jitters which you have passed, and are questioning desperately how Santa can fit through the tiny vent to the chimney and you say, with an air of finality, “Because Santa is an octopus.”
Whether or not they grasped the drift that octopi can squeeze themselves into extremely tight spaces, I don’t know. But at least they quieted down.
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This octopus doesn’t look like it can squeeze through a chimney vent.
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Never underestimate the octopus!
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No, this is going too far. 
(For those wary of the link, it’s from a FB group for AI art and prompts showing Pirates of the Caribbean’s Davy Jones dressed for the season.)
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I think the claw on that one would prevent it from
Video of an actual octopus escaping through a small hole (for anyone who doesn’t get the reference): https://youtube.com/shorts/AjXICYbY25Y
(There are many videos like this one)
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What does sans-camera mean?
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Or when you scale up a hill and into a random dude’s house to photograph a blue tiger moth. People looked at me like I was insane lol.
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sans means without.
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… when you have a note in your profile that your camera daylight saving setting was off for some observations.
or worse
… when you don’t have this note, because you manually fixed the 1h difference for all observations ( https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-option-to-batch-edit-time-by-a-number-of-hours/27898 please).
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Ah ok. When I heard sans my mind immediately went to undertale.
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I’m very thankful I have the zoom on my camera to at least get some shots, even if they are bad!!
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