You know you're seriously into iNat when

[texas_nature_family]

@caterpillar511

I always carry my camera on me…

Me too! And probably most of us on here!

[andreass1]

…you’re in bed just falling asleep, but then realize that you haven’t made any observation today which will break your iNat streak of about 70 consecutive days, so you get dressed, go outside in the dark to find something to observe for that day (happened to me the other day).

[jennifergrinsdale]

… you start carrying your dslr with the telephoto zoom lens when you walk the dog because you want to take close up pics but the dog scares everything away.

[texas_nature_family]

What did you find? :)

[socroc10]

You spend all your free time at school IDing observations.

[caterpillar511]

I also spend lots of my free time at school IDing

[oxydoras]

I was late to physics a few days ago because I was trying to take a picture of a ruby-throated hummingbird…such is the life of an iNatter.

[oxydoras]

I recently found a Virginia Rail hiding next to a store in downtown NYC. Since then, I’ve always carried my phone in my hand with the Camera app opened no matter where I am.

[carabid_47]

when you’ve received more concussions and broken cartilage from chasing lifers than boxing and futbol

[onefishyboi]

The salmonids aren’t gonna ID themselves!!

[theresephillips]

you know you’re seriously into iNaturalist when you spend hours identifying and make lots of observations per day during the summer and freetime during the school year

[theresephillips]

and when you fill out annotations and observations fields whenever you get the chance

[theresephillips]

yes same here but I don’t have a dog but I just go on walks a ton and using a telephoto lens is way easier than using a macro lens on the walk

[andreass1]

Nothing too special, a weedy and relatively common species of clover (T. hybridum), but I had not observed it in a while and not yet in this part of town so still not too bad of a find considering the circumstances :)

[oksanaetal]

You spend half the day outside and exploring, and the other half at the computer identifying.

[nousernameavailable]

Oh my god that’s exactly what happened to me.

[kzoebel]

When you stop to photograph the squirrel you just hit with your car even though you’re crying and upset.

[caterpillar511]

…You look at the bees flying around instead of doing what you are supposed to be doing.

[apusaffinis]

Nature laughs at our schedules!
Time well spent by the sounds of it : )

[liamodo]

Honestly shocked I haven’t gotten the cops called on me poking around alleys with a headlight