you refuse to leave the house without your binoculars
Also refuse to leave without a flashlight.
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This is me!
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Arguably makes your observations more important. There’s less people there who are recording this data
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I’ve always got my macrolens clipon with me
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Me too!
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…you get covid and instead of being alarmed take a photo of the test results for another observation.
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When you make a third account in order to put your best photos on.
technically against inat guidelines, unless I’m mistaken
so I would not do that
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What’s the point of getting COVID if you can’t iNat it?
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This just happened today. Was getting an old silver amalgam filling replaced with a crown. They take a mould of the tooth to have the permanent crown made and it takes three minutes to set the mould with the dental assistant sitting there holding the bottom of the jaw to keep it from opening. However, the first one didn’t take for some reason and they had to do it a second time. That first three minutes was interminable so during the second three minute wait I pulled out my phone went to a project and did half a dozen or so identifications in that time. Of course this led to the conversation of ‘what are you doing?’ and I tried to convince the dentist and assistant that they should iNat too.
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My family always sends me insect pictures for the same reason, and I also always correct them that it isnt a bug XD
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My family does the same thing, and I do always correct them!
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Same. I’ve arrived late to a lecture once because I couldn’t find mine. Why anyone would even want to leave their home without one is beyond me.
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… when you wake from a dream all excited wanting to take a picture of the stunning roots of an invasive plant that are arranged incredibly symmetrically in quadrangles held together at the joints by tiny red balls, forming a cup-like net…
(No kidding, happened this morning. I was very disappointed when fully awake. And very much regretting I never learned to draw, or else I’d be able to share that last image that burnt itself into my memory).
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…your orchestra is planning a trip to Peru and your first thought is: “Omg. So many new species!”
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Speaking of flattened fauna, the phrase “roadkill” (and its alternate spelling “road kill”) appear 9 times in this thread, but the one below is a first:
You know you’re seriously into iNat when you mentally ID every roadkill that you pass, but then you pass an unidentifiable flat blob, and it bothers you.
Your brain starts inventing possible IDs from other continents, because it kind of looks like that thing. Escaped exotic pet? What could it be?
You HAVE to return to inspect the flat blob and confirm your ID!
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Very relatable!
I do that to. I am not sure why, but I guess for me it makes the road trip a little bit better 
I guess it is something to look for, and being an iNater, of course I think about what if I had gotten a photo, oh how I wish I could post it.
Not sure how my family likes when I say “Oh, look, there’s a dead raccoon”.
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I still can’t believe that other people travel for reasons other than to see other ecosystems and the organisms that inhabit them.
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