As part of NR1020, we were expected to participate in the City Nature Challenge iNaturalist BioBlitz. To be completely honest, I forgot about it and had calculus and chemistry assignments I had to do this weekend. But I still locked in and got some data while I was out doing the tree data collection and grabbing brunch with my friends after church!
Most of my data was on campus, or downtown between church street and the waterfront.
Here is a map of my data:
I logged a total of 14 observations. There were some trees, but my favorite part of the BioBlitz was seeing so many beautiful flowers!
I was kind of confused as to why we had to get the new iNaturalist app, but I found it fairly easy to use. It did not auto-save the location for each post, so I had to manually add it later. I never had that issue with the last app, but maybe it was just my phone not having service.
Here is my profile if you care to snoop on my observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/ejbritt
I cannot believe there are over 2,000,000 observations right now! Insane! i love how everyone is coming together and celebrating and logging phenology right now. Also very interesting that San Antonio is in one of the top spots, I have ALOT of family there and they are definitely not participating, although I should’ve asked them to. Next year!