Boston City Nature Challenge Day 2 Recap

With the wonderful weather, the Boston area CNC gained over 5,000 total observations yesterday!

How did The Great Squirrel Hunt do? 38 observers added 54 observations, making our total count across the 2018 City Nature Challenge 101 observations so far! Our most observed species is, unsurprisingly, the Eastern Gray Squirrel. Shoutout to user @lvfree for this fun shot: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11664417 and to @dalien for this beauty: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11700199

Yesterday was also exciting for another reason: American Red Squirrel sightings! Congrats to @bmvig, who just edged out @marthaslone for the first observation. In total, six observers in the Boston area made six research grade observations of red squirrels. Keep up the the great work! Will you be the first to find an American Red Squirrel in your town?

Or, will you be the very first to find a Northern Flying Squirrel, Southern Flying Squirrel, or Woodchuck this Boston CNC? There are only 2 observations of Northern Flying Squirrels in the GSH ever, so any observations you can make are incredibly important.

We could also use more helping hands down through Wellesley, Dedham, and Braintree, as well as up in the Salem and Essex areas, so keep your eyes open if you'll be over those ways!

Don't let the gray weather keep you blue! There's still plenty of time for observations before the end of this City Nature Challenge! For identification tips and information on the other five data quests run by the Boston CNC, go to: http://www.zoonewengland.org/protect/here-in-new-england/boston-area-city-nature-challenge/data-quests

Posted on April 29, 2018 03:37 PM by lindsaymw