Day 1 Finds & a reminder to keep it WILD!

Team Wasatch is doing an amazing job recording species! The spirit of the City Nature Challenge is collecting images of the WILD organisms all around us – like wild animals seen on a hike, insects living between flowers someone planted, weeds in park strips and sidewalk cracks, and squirrels and birds perched on buildings, power lines, and feeders. Observations of wild living or dead organisms, or evidence of those organisms (like shells, tracks, scat, fur, feathers, etc.) are all great photos to upload. If you take a photo of something you know is not wild (like a plant you planted in your yard!), please help the iNaturalist community by marking it as captive/cultivated before uploading it.

We hope you are enjoy exploring the wild plants, animals and other naturally occurring things throughout northern Utah this weekend! You can make observations of nature on your own through May 3rd. You can also join in one of the many events going on this weekend. Happy Exploring!

Here are just a few amazing highlights from yesterday:
-Fox Squirrel photobomb! observation by @chad_w
-Check out this cool Hairy Bear Scarab Beetle observation by @lksargent
-Beautiful birding by @connie43: Black-crowned Night-Heron
-Glacier Lilies are blooming! observation by @bellawetzler

See Wasatch project observations you like? Paste links in the comments of this journal, or Tag @nhmucitsci in the observation's comments!

Publicado el mayo 1, 2021 05:57 TARDE por nhmucitsci