Boston City Nature Challenge Day 3 Recap

Boston, in 9th place, now has 12,920 observations and 1,176 species in the 2018 City Nature Challenge!

Yesterday we added 63 total new observations to The Great Squirrel Hunt during the 3rd day of the Boston city nature challenge. That included 45 Eastern Grey Squirrels, 14 Eastern Chipmunks, and 4 American Red Squirrels. There are still no observations of Woodchucks, Southern Flying Squirrels, or Northern Flying Squirrels during the CNC. Will you be the first to spot one?

Shout out to iNaturalist users @grakk , @csingler , and @ellenloftis for adding the only three photographed observations of an American Red Squirrel! Also a shout out to akilee for this amazing Eastern Chipmunk picture: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11774541

Observations stretched all the way from Swampscott, Tewksbury, Roxbury, Bolton, and everywhere in between! Waltham and Somerville continue to be hot spots, but we could use more observations from the Newton, Wellesley, and the Framingham areas!

Thank you to @hitchco and @markchandler for adding 3 observations each yesterday to the project! @maractwin continues to hold his place at the top of the observer list with 138 observations, 2 during the 2018 City Nature Challenge!

Keep up the good work Boston!

Posted on April 30, 2018 01:01 PM by mmassoia