היומן של dianastuder

Typical Cape Winter the way it used to be. Cold. And wet. We got only 2 hikes.
https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/08/july-fynbos-rambles-elsies-and-noordhoek-peaks%20.html

We have a Fynbos Rambles on the Cape Peninsula project on iNaturalist. As we work back adding observations from our hikes, we have 570 species. 483 plants, including 35 Peninsula Endemics. 73 assorted animals including 52 arthropods. 12 mushrooms and lichen.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fynbos-rambles-on-the-cape-peninsula
Now I can use the tools iNat has to offer!

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/07/may-and-june-fynbos-rambles.html

before the winter hit us in July, coming direct from Antarctica!

Last November.
Pink bananas and pink pineapples.
Vanilla orchids.
Scaevola that grows in salt spray on the shore.
Grass that can colonise lava by the sea.
A tropicbird with long white tail.
Lichen that colonises lava.

So many exotic plants (and bird).
Wonderful to meet in life what I recognise from iNat!

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/07/reunion-island-jardin-parfums-epices.html

in the world's smallest plant kingdom.

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/05/march-fynbos-rambles-silvermine-smitswinkel.html

for disas and After Fire Flowers

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/04/february-hikes-cecilia-slangkop-blackburn-elsies.html

Back to our November journey and a chance for me to SEE, with my own two eyes, some of the plants I know only from IDing iNat obs.

Four more from my obs

Lessertia capensis with its vivid colour
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137157811

Aristea glauca has papery bracts
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105216414

Garden volunteer
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23127748

And a moss thanks to @georgeg
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177538147
waiting very patiently for a second taxon specialist ...

Hiking among wildflowers
in the mountains
around Cape Town

This January was a month of fires, smoke, and burn scars. Gave me 800 Cape Peninsula sp.

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/03/january-hikes-elsies-peak-jonkersdam-rooihoogte-steenberg.html

Lifelist is buggy?

821 species today.
https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/dianastuder?tree_mode=full_taxonomy&place_id=123155

The formal list is
https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/900895-Adamson---Salter-List

iNat's places shows me at 778 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/cape-peninsula#/places/cape-peninsula=

Disa ferruginea doesn't show up on my 'lifelist' but it is on the other 2.
778 versus 821 species - will have to stumble after both numbers.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107826343

Catching up.