I did some digging, and I used to do the poll on a Monday. I’ll do the next one on October 20th (a Monday)
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Mine is not a photo, it’s a screen shot from a video. Another buck joined this one at the tank, and the coyote laid down under the black hose and just pressed herself against the tank while the bucks drank and ignored her.
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And, a link? So I can add it to the project
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Oh, I knew it. I forgot the poll.
- @pnwcoasthiker’s Black Bear track
- @gillingbirder’s Wild Turkeys
- @oksanaetal’s Northern Red Oak
- @seventhgentexan’s Coyote and Buck
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YES! I DID IT!
Also, we only had 4 submissions this week. We need more submissions!
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I was wondering if it was still happening this Monday or next one, since we just had one. I was going to ask, and then…I forgot.
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Just remember, I never said it had to be an observation. For me, I don’t post photos that I know what it is, so a lot of them don’t have observations. For this time, I’ll make an observation for my Loon (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322259711), but please stop asking people for observations. If they don’t provide one, it’s their choice not to be in the project!
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Thanks!
Also, sorry to everyone for being rude…
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I didn’t mean you were being rude, I just figured that some people don’t actually have observations (like me in the loon case).
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No problem! Not like I ever won, but, you were just trying to add the observations to that project, which is kind of a cool record of all of the winning photos. I, myself, didn’t know that not everybody posts the observations to their photos; @whistlingduck’s photo was so cool, I kind of just imagined it would be there. It’s just a matter of opinion, perspective, and time. I think it is a fun project. 
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Not this week but within the past two weeks. I just bought underwater housing for my phone, wanted it for my DSLR but that crap is way too expensive. Im so glad I bought it as its opened up a whole new world of things to identify. Here’s a photo I got in a creek near my house of a Northern Clearwater Crayfish.
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Wow, what surface is the spider on? That’s insane!!!
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This Cotton Bollwood Moth:
It’s closest thing to a professional macro shot I’ve ever gotten.
This lime blue:
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Well… it’s on a plastic box I dropped in the grass and, the rest is luck! 
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Also this moss would probably fit https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322601140
Couldn’t choose a single best photo, so there’s the whole obs.
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Awesome photo! Maybe post it to a “best photo“ thread, perhaps for photos from this week…
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Well, haven’t posted in a little while, but finally got some focus stacks of some globular springtails, as the cold weather brings more of them out and about (cold lovers, after my own heart). Here is a small (16 image) focus stack I got of a Sminthurinus henshawi. Found it on the underside of a leaf, where I just waited for it to eventually sit still enough for a short stack (took me probably around 5 seconds to take).
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Oh, and @ra_teo, here’s the link just in case https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323279301
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This beauty was molting, and was a bright purple-red color, very different from their typical brown.
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This week that just passed, I managed to get quite close to some Heliconius erato butterflies and take some decent photos of them having breakfast:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323111413
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323246095
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323307633
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323309883
In this tiny territory, there are at least five individuals that after weeks of visiting them periodically have always been present. I had gone many times without my camera, so this was time. I arrive to the place to find them nectaring, laying eggs, playing around and chasing, how satisfying it is to see them comfortable, doing their daily butterfly routine, and not wanting to leave.
To take the pictures I had to sit next to the plant and wait for them to come, after a while I already had them so close and flying around me. I am finally starting to learn how to use my digital camera after so many years.
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