Yesterday, 1 May 2022, marked my first year on iNaturalist, and I've enjoyed everything I've done and learned so far. I first joined iNaturalist on 1 May 2021 for the City Nature Challenge, after I saw a post by the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, WA about the City Nature Challenge, and I thought it would be an interesting thing to try and that I might enjoy it (which I did). In the past year, I've learned so much more than I would've ever though I would have when I first joined. I also didn't think that I'd end up starting to identify other people's observation as well.
As of the time of writing, on my profile it shows that I've
The first observation I uploaded was a Pacific Banana Slug (naturally) from Wildwood Park in Puyallup, WA that I took pictures of on 24 June 2021. The first observation where I took new pictures specifically to upload (rather than uploading older pictures of mine) was a Bigleaf Maple I observed at 11:35 on 1 May 2021, the day I joined, and uploaded 4 minutes later.
As for identifications, just yesterday I just hit the milestone of 1,000 identifications for others. My focus for identifying has mainly been plants in western Washington & Oregon. Of course, I've made more than my share of mistakes and errors in the past, but I try to take the opportunity to learn from them.
In this years City Nature Challenge for the Seattle-Tacoma Metro Area, I'm currently sitting at 4th place for the top identifiers, and I want to try to stay in the top 5 by the time the end of the identifying/uploading period.
By end of day 1 May 2023, I want to try to get to:
I also want to learn more about and identify a wider variety of plants, especially those present in the Pacific Northwest. I also want to get better at getting more precise identifications on a lot of my own observations as I upload, because currently at lot just get left at plants or dicots when I upload them.
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