Here is my list.
Because I like the California Poppy (maybe because I’m colorblind) and because there are just over a dozen species I look for Eschscholzia.
Because I dislike poison oak (because for many years I would only find it the hard way) I look for Toxicodendron in California. As a side effect I look at some similar-looking plants such as Rhus aromatica/trilobata and some Rubus.
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This is my list!
They tend to be things that I took the time and identified in bursts. Seaside Pea, Rose Spirea, Fringe Cups, American Dune Grass, and Candlesnuff Fungus tend to be identified less and are visually distinct from related species so I sometimes took a day to ID as much as I could within the Metro Area.
The butterflies are not surprising to me, because both of them were staples when I was growing up and I saw them both plenty so I can recognize them with ease.
The first non-native species is Epicopeia hainesii, 17th on the list, which is visually unique and happened to be rather under identified. Pretty neat info!
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Update: apart from a few taxon photo changes the list hasn’t changed drastically. As expected, birds are going down the list, although slowly. I’ve also been identifying marine bivalves more often and it does reflect through the list
I’ve had to update my iNat profile from saying “I identify freshwater bivalves” to “I used to identify only freshwater [bivalves], but I now identify a lot of marine groups too”
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Ladybugs have been dominating my recent ID runs. Turns out, there are plenty of years-old observations just waiting to be IDed. Of note is the Asian Lady Beetle which is now eyeing up the Mallard for 1st place!
The newest addition to my top 10 is the Six-spotted Zigzag Lady Beetle, replacing the Rock Pigeon. It has a very large range and it’s still expanding. It may soon be reported from the US and if it is, I can expect it to climb the observation ladder and overtake some of the other species on the list. It’s also just a beautiful species and I love to ID it!
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Re-did my top 10 and after 20 months have had a shift to Lepidoptera. Still some Octopi occupying some spots but my more recent interests taking over.
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Honey bee dropped to #24 and there are 3 insects in my top 70 (rest are plants)! It seems I’ve identified at least one observation of 57,000 users. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=egordon88&place_id=any&verifiable=any&view=species
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I fear my IDs are not very diverse, all of my top species all the way down to #366 (American Red Squirrel) are birds! In fact of the 151,899 observations I’ve IDed only 3632 are of other animals than birds. My top ten is:
- Mallard (2,439)
- Canada goose (1,816)
- Yellow-rumped warbler (1,606)
- American robin (1,534)
- Great blue heron (1,330)
- House finch (1,314)
- Rock pigeon (1,305)
- Northern cardinal (1,209)
- Red-winged blackbird (1,118)
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I saw you recently identified a few of my Cheilomenes sexmaculata larva and I was wildly impressed! (I have a few more I think could be but am not sure how to sort to solely show the larva.)
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You’re welcome! This is a very recent arrival to Mexico, the earliest record being from Oct 2020.
My father was from New Zealand - I remember him talking about black swans.
Cool! Are these your IDs or your observations? (I notice it says just 1 observer at the top)
Ahh I didn’t know the difference sorry 
I couldn’t find how to see my ID’s and when I looked at the other pictures people uploaded I was like “Oh it must be just stuff people have identified themselves”…
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No worries, here’s a search URL that will show a user’s IDs for other people by taxon: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=bugbaer¬_user_id=bugbaer&place_id=any&verifiable=any&view=species
Just replace my iNat user name (bugbaer) with your username in both the ident_user_id and not_user_id spots!
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If they are your top ten of Observations, come stick them here!: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inordinate-fondness-your-top-10-species/53549
And welcome to the forums! 
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Thank you!!
Since I’m just getting started I’m not surprised at this:
What I am surprised about is the dandelion, but eventually all of the island endemic snails (8 species) will get surpassed simply because they don’t have enough observations to stay in the top 10 as my account gets older.
Edit: Helix pomatia might stay though.
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Can’t say I’m surprised, as I mainly ID Clematis and Convolvulaceae. The 1st non-Clematis/ bindweed species is Geranium robertianum at the 18th place, they are just so common in my area !
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