היומן של jmaughn
Today represents my 10 year anniversary of daily observations on iNaturalist. During that time I've made a bit more than 50,000 observations of more than 4000 species from three continents, eleven countries, twenty-three US states, and thirty-eight California counties.
...and, no, I'm still not entirely sure why I'm doing this.
Jim
I think I managed to find all three members of the Moon Snail Family in the Monterey Bay today. I still awaiting confirmation, but...yay, me.
Slime/Fungus/Lichen:
Plants:
Broadleaf Sea Lettuce (Ulva lactuca)
Inverts:
Fish:
Herps:
Birds:
Mammals:
Yesterday I reached my 50,000th observation on iNat. It was this small Giant, seen along a creek in Santa Clara County, CA. Since this all started with herps for me, that seemed appropriate. My first entry was on Sept. 13th, 2011, so I've been at this nearly eleven years, minus a few days. Weird.
Lifelist Firsts 2021
Slime/Fungus/Lichen:
Plants:
Inverts:
Fish:
Birds:
Mammals:
Note: Some Common Names are Made Up by Me.
This entry marks the 1,500th time I have entered a Western Fence Lizard into iNaturalist, which is somewhat...embarrassing, really. Here you are, though, in all of its slightly-out-of-focus glory, Fencie #1,500:
According to iNaturalist Streak (https://mapsandapps.github.io/inat-streak/), today is the 3000th day I've posted at least one observation to iNaturalist.
No doubt tomorrow will be 3001.
-Jim
I've just finished going through and deleting most of my old lists. Now that the autofill function has been removed, they don't really make sense to keep up. I totally understand why the iNaturalist curators needed to do this. That function caused a lot of problems, and was buggy and archaic. Out with the old, in with the new.
Still, while it's a little embarrassing to admit, I might be the only user on iNaturalist who really enjoyed the old lists. I had lists for each of the continents, each country I'd visited, each state in the US, and each county within California. I had lifelists for many different sorts of organisms, from birds to sharks and rays to slime molds. I enjoyed tinkering with the lists and looking over them.
The new Dynamic Lifelist is an improvement, by all accounts. Most every other user likes it much better, and so I'm all in for it. To be honest, though, I don't get the same pleasure from it that I did from the old form of list. Maybe it will grow on me, now that it's what there is. I will miss, though, the familiar little squares, each filled with one of my poor quality photos, organized the way I wanted them.
This had to happen, and I know that. iNaturalist needs to be able to develop and expand, and the old lists and the autofill function were a drag on the system. Like I said, I'm all in. I'll miss futzing around with my lists while I drink my coffee in the morning, though. That's all. RIP old lists. I'll remember you fondly, even if no one else will.
Lifelist Firsts 2020
Slime/Fungus/Lichen:
Plants:
Inverts:
Fish:
Herps:
Birds:
Mammals:
A virtual Pandemic Quilt of observations made since the beginning of in Santa Cruz County's shelter-in-place order on March 16th, 2020. Pretty much the only activity sanctioned under the order is solitary outdoor exercise, such as hiking.
