Category: iNaturalist
Fan Palms
House Sparrow (in the weeds)
House #sparrow in the green belt along a bike path.
evening-primroses
evening primrose family
Clover
European Starling
Fan Palms
A palm tree growing out of a palm tree. It might even be one of its own seeds that got caught between the stumps of the fronds.
There are quite a few plants like this growing out of the palm trees along this street. I’ll have to bring a better camera so I can get some clearer photos.
House Sparrow: Super-Blurry on a Wire
Perfect example: I posted this super-blurry photo of a bird on a wire across the street, zoomed optically as far as I could and then just cropped. Within 15 minutes, 4 people had identified it as not just a sparrow, but specifically a house sparrow!
Meanwhile the entry for the horseweed from last week still hasn’t had anyone stop in to confirm or correct the ID.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26366528
Flax-leaved horseweed, according to iNaturalist’s identification engine.
Flax-leaved horseweed, according to iNaturalist’s identification engine.
Since the idea is to catalog nature, not gardens, I’ve found myself taking lots of photos of weeds. Some that I know, like dandelions, and a lot that I don’t.
Unfortunately, while observations of birds almost instantly attract other users who are ready to fine-tune the ID, people don’t seem as interested in identifying plants.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26041661
On Photog.Social
On iNaturalist
Fellow iNaturalist user @sohkamyung recommended this forum thread on photo-taking recommendations by taxon
@rubah suggests tagging fediverse pictures with #plantID or #PlantIdentification.
Palm tree
Fox Squirrel (in the patio)
Apparently this bird is called a dark-eyed junco.
European Starling
Wild Radish
Western Gull walking in the parking lot
Canada Goose walking through the grass
Western Gull in flight
Life finds a way
The rain has had a surprise effect on the wood chips blanketing one of the local playgrounds. Warned the hobbit away from these mushrooms.
The rain has had a surprise effect on the wood chips blanketing one of the local playgrounds. Warned the hobbit away from these mushrooms.