Day 1 highlights and Day 2 goals!

Hi everyone,

Congratulations on an AWESOME first day of our City Nature Challenge! Nearly 60 people made observations yesterday, with over 280 species observed as of midnight. You all blew our expectations out of the water - thank you so much for your enthusiastic participation!

We are especially excited to see that people are making observations across both counties, including lots of great observations at the shore. Here are just of few of our favorite observations from yesterday:

American Oystercatcher, photographed by @rrn in West Haven:

Osprey, photographed by @scmayo in Madison:

Six-spotted Tiger Beetle, photographed by @snakebird15 in Bloomfield:

Northern Cinnabar Polypore, photographed by @william_dornbos in West Hartford:

And...our most observed species of the day! The Yellow Trout Lily, photographed by @billiam in West Hartford:

GOALS FOR TODAY, 4/27:

• Reach 65 observers (ask some friends to go out with you today - let's see if we can recruit some more new iNaturalist users!)
• Surpass 400 species observed
• Get some fish onto our list of species, as well as some shellfish/shells from the shore, seaweeds, algae, etc.
• Document some of the common mammals that we're missing: deer, groundhogs, chipmunks, etc.
• Get some observations in northern Hartford County on our map: Enfield, Granby, Hartland, etc.

Thank you again to everyone who contributed yesterday - we can't wait to see what today brings!

• Sarah (@chiforager) and Chase (@hexagonaria)

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Posted on April 27, 2024 05:26 AM by chiforager