This weekend was beautiful spring weather, perfect for the City Nature Challenge iNaturalist BioBlitz! I explored the Intervale (right next to Salmon Hole!) during their Spectacular Nature Day Celebration. My experience using iNaturalist was fantastic, I uploaded some unknown observations that I had no guess as to their identification. By the time I open the app again a few hours or days later, other user usually has left a commented identification for me. Because of this, I am learning many new identification skills.
On this particular day (not including my previous iNaturalist uploads) I encountered 12 species of plants, animals and insects (not including the ones I deemed too mundane to document).
This tadpole and fish were in a container by the pond left for people to investigate. Super cool!
Something that I found interesting about iNaturalist reports from other cities participating globally was how many people actually took the time to make the observations. Even though the populations of many global cities are incomprehensible compared to Burlington, I think of Burlington as a place with a hyper concentration of environmentalists and naturalists. Places like London or New York City are hubs for people with agendas, places to see, things to do. But surprisingly, they also have a large amount of people paying attention to city nature.