Ah Gerald. What an odd fellow.
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I wish- all I’ve found in a cemetery fernwise is at best Polystichum
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/385029
Shown to us in a rather old cemetery, with just the right level of age and de minimis caretaking to produce a good successional habitat.
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I’m sure I just need to mess around old cemeteries a bit more. People seem to freak out in my area if stuff isn’t mowed, though :/
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Email spam disappeared
Google Maps functions are totally confused, asks me to confirm impossible daily movements, stops recommending me things.
Youtube however, recommends videos about living off the grid, woodworking, and peaceful office jazz, nice muzak.
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…you find yourself oddly relieved the cold weather has arrived so you can resume your normal life without stopping every 15 minutes to take a picture of a bug
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cold weather causes predators to stalk paths for scent of prey, since it is washed off or not evaporating easily. Other animals are disturbed by the traffic. Paw prints last longer in the frozen ground.
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Cold weather means you come close to a random tree and see a dozen of young multi-species spiders flying on their web, so you have to catch/check them all.
UPD. Also it means a new species for the website! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35897336
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two points: what if that is your normal life?
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Today out exploring the insect life of a local trail, I explained to a poor stranger, who showed just the slightest of interest, that cold weather is great for zeroing in on insects. The ID pool is smaller, the insects slower, fewer in flight and you aren’t distracted by plants and unpleasant heat and humidity. I took many observations today of arthropods on one fence with many many posts. Couldn’t get a photo of a Bruce spanworm though… too fluttery.
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“One landed on my finger and I took a quick picture of it before it flew away:”
On a bioblitz, a city naturalist let a group of us photograph a mosquito on his forearm before swatting it. And none got a photo good enough to post.
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What would be funny is if the city naturalist flexed his arm (assuming the mosquito was on his arm) so all you get as a photo is an exploding mosquito! 
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When you’re at a park crouching with phone in hand, and you start to attract the interest of strangers who approach only to see that it’s just a common lizard!
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That reminds me this very painful situation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34821205
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…when you travel to another city because – you are known to be so seriously into iNat to get invited to give talks about this platform at a museum in front of scientists and at a university lecture hall in front of students, and afterwards be asked by members of the audience to spread the word in other cities as well. Sure as hell I will do (and promote the CNC) 
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You scanning the blackbird at your feeder, instead of making a video from it…
You scanning neighbours cat, just for curiosity without taking a picture…
You stop looking for nice pictures, but scan to complete the forest challenge…
That’s me… a Newbie… to inat…^^
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to the point that if I4 disappeared, they’ll be able to recreate it using your observations (and almost all of Florida I95 too):
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Great observation! Good to know.
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Thank you, just look at the @alexis_orion list, that’s amazing! Hope I’ll get something similar next spring or summer.)
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aww I should have done that. I have too many iNat firsts :(
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