Hello from the end of the City Nature iNaturalist BioBlitz Challenge! During the last few days, I have explored mostly in and around the UVM campus. I noted many species around Redstone campus, and on Sunday some members of my lab group went on a walk to Redstone quarry which is where I did the majority of my inputs! My experience using iNaturalist was good! It was nice to have a bit of prior experience using the app in NR1010 so it was very intuitive using it this time around. I had about fifteen observations with a total of eight species! My favorite things I spotted were different species of birds because it is so nice to see them after a long winter.
Above is a photo of my lab group on a Sunday walk!
Something that I found particularly interesting about incoming reports from other cities was that almost all of the US cities that were in the top ten participating cities were in Texas. I also found it interesting that these reports were coming from cities you don’t think of as super outdoories, like San Antonio and Dallas. I love how this challenge brought the whole world together around nature!
