This past weekend was the city nature challenge. Sadly, during most of this weekend I was at a Timbersports meet in New Hampshire. This meant I was only really able to participate on Friday, so on Friday I went to Centennial woods twice, before and after lab.
I enjoyed using iNaturalist as I’ve used it many times before but never at this capacity. Over the course of the day I made 41 observations. Almost all of which were different species. Sadly, it appears that none of my observations made it onto the group project for the lab as the project didn’t open until Saturday. Luckily I’m pretty sure my observations were being recorded into the Greater Burlington city nature challenge project.
I’m currently have the 22nd most observations in the city nature challenge, out of 331. I find it really impressive how some of these cities are able to get thousands of people to participate in this. Cochabamba, a city in Bolivia currently has 2,778 observers, and La Paz, also in Bolivia, has over 107,000 observations.
One of the coolest parts of this event was how I got extremely quick feedback on my observations, it often takes weeks for my observations to get looked at and IDed, however, I was getting notifications that my observations were being IDed while I was still out in the woods.
