2024 North Florida & South Georgia City Nature Challenge's Journal

Hello peeps, I hope everyone’s ready to go iNatting in 2 weeks.

This will be a good time to just get out there and capture all you can in a 4-day span.

As long as your photo metadata fall within those 4 days your observations will count, even if you can’t get them uploaded for a few days. You have 4 additional days to get your pix uploaded, so spend your daylight hours taking photos of organisms and load your stuff instead of eating and sleeping and TV!

I always recommend, to take your pix with your camera, then edit as appropriate to crop etc - I never take pix using the in-app camera option! This way you can easily take several pix from various aspects and of different structures, which helps a TON when identifiers are looking to put names on your stuff. I invite you to scan through my observations and see what I photograph, how many, what angles etc.

Remember you can also collect sounds! You can also go look around your house lights or street lights, see what’s flying or crawling in!

Get out to the state parks that are in close range here, cuz that’s where the biodiversity is! All over N FL and SW GA. Get out there and absorb some Vitamin N! That’s the Nature vitamin eh… get ya some feel-good.

Lastly, please tell your iNatting friends to join and also go iNatting intensely for 4 days! Please, do not delay!

Cheers, Ingolf

Hello fellow iNaturalist Observer! This year the City Nature Challenge (CNC) takes place April 26th – 29th. We have just 8 days left, so hurry and join and make plans, today! Our folks got 118th place last year, but that was our first time out of the gate.

You are tagged to receive this message because you made iNaturalist observations this year in this region. You are encouraged [maybe again] to participate in this global event. 692 “Cities” are participating this year, worldwide (up from 492 in 2023)! Let’s do our part here in North Florida and South Georgia! “Join” the 2024 bioblitz link below and follow the incoming stuff for 4 days!

Give your efforts, as much as is possible for you. Let your friends know to join in too!! All you need to do is go outside, somewhere, anywhere, in the counties that are included, and make iNaturalist observations. You can go for a walk, take the dog for a walk, a proper hike, kayaking, scuba diving, digging in the compost, looking in rotten logs, under rocks, at your lights or go out with a sheet at night for insects, make sound recordings of frogs and birds. Anywhere! Any time! State parks are your best bet for finding the greatest biodiversity, just pick one and go there. Even a weedy roadside has lots to find.

If you think you might be interested, here is a link about the CNC so you can read up: https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/

Here is a link to our regional CNC Project to JOIN:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/2024-north-florida-south-georgia-city-nature-challenge

This includes counties in NW Florida and SW Georgia; the link will show you the map of counties at the bottom. This is where you made the observations that led me to message you. You may have been just travelling through this area and played at iNatting, but there is likely a CNC in your home area that you can join – see the CNC link.

During these 4 days, the idea is to accumulate as many observations in iNaturalist as you can, including photos or sounds. As long as your photos were taken during those 4 days, we have 4 more days to get them uploaded. Identifications can be made at any time.

Many folks are not aware that inaturalist.org is the desktop version and is far more powerful than the mobile app. You can use the desktop on your iPad as well. Please visit there and find your messages, review your account settings, take time to do identifications, check out the iNat Forum function, explore the wide world of iNaturalist beyond your phone!

I apologize in advance for this mass message, but iNat messaging doesn’t accommodate bcc.

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Just a quick reminder, the bioblitz starts tonight at midnight! Take your photos, record your sounds for the next four days: 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th! You can upload them and do identifications during these 4 days, but you then have 4 additional days to finish your uploads and identifications.

Please keep in mind only wild organisms count for the purpose of the bioblitz. Things like the nursery flowers you planted, your pets, landscape plants in your neighborhood, all these will not count

Last year we almost hit the 4,000 marks, coming in 118th worldwide.

Happy hunting out there!