City Nature Challenge 2019 (April 26 through 29)

This Friday is first day of the fourth City Nature Challenge, a friendly competition to see which metro area can rack up the most observations, species, and participants in those four days. This year it's once again an international competition with 162 locations participating (more than twice that of last year!). In Santa Clara County there are a few organized events:

4/27

Palo Alto Foothills Park

4/28
Ulistac Natural Area (north San Jose/Alvisoish area)

4/29
Hellyer County Park (south San Jose)

It's absolutely gorgeous out, still lush and green and full of flowers, and I highly encourage everyone to get out and do a little exploration! Even just an evening walk in your own neighborhood can turn up some birds or flowers you've maybe never seen before.

Here's the SF Bay Area portion of the City Nature Challenge, where you can find a list of events in other counties & check out the leaderboard & observations as they start coming in:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-san-francisco-bay-area

Here's the overall event, where you can see worldwide observations & leaderboards and how we rank:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019

Posted on April 25, 2019 05:12 PM by sea-kangaroo