Day Four - I <3 NY
There are still 1.5 hours left in the City Nature Challenge in case anyone's out making night time observations, but we just broke 20,000 observations and I am SO PROUD of the great observing you all have been doing! We're in fourth place right now, just above DC!
I know I still have quite a few observations waiting to be uploaded on my phone. If you're in the same boat, the deadline for getting them up on iNaturalist is 9am on Friday. Of course, the sooner you get them up, the sooner the community can help us increase our species list by adding IDs. I can't wait to see what you all discovered!
Let us know what you're favorite observation was in the comments below!
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I ended the day by taking my evening class into the Hallett Nature Sanctuary in Central Park, which none of us had ever been in before. Great spring flowers (trilliums, bloodroot, mayapple) and birds. I think the most shocking thing, though, was the complete lack of garlic mustard, poison ivy, and Japanese knotweed, which I had been documenting all over the rest of the Park. The Parks staff are definitely hard at work in there!
I think we are doing phenomenally well, especially considering what a very cold spring NYC has had -- very few insects are out, and many plants are not yet out either. Also we are doing remarkably well considering how far north NYC is, compared with those other cities at the top of the list. The further south you are, the warmer it is, the larger the overall fauna and flora is, and the more advanced the season is.
I also think we are beating the others in terms of the number of observations we are racking up per observer.
Yay NYC!
Washington is only 10 observations behind us! Can we make sure we split observations where there are multiple organisms in one photo? I assume we are allowed to do that during these ID days?
We can definitely encourage people to split them! They have to do it themselves as the owners of the photographs. Gentle nudges in the comments are totally appropriate.
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