19:00:11 From mkkennedy to Everyone: iNaturalist.ca 19:00:14 From mkkennedy to Everyone: https://blog.cwf-fcf.org/index.php/en/tag/city-nature-challenge 19:08:55 From mkkennedy to Everyone: maybe Kevin can use the chat? 19:15:08 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: Brian Starzomski, a Nova Scotian. 19:20:45 From Kevin Moore to Everyone: The good thing about using your cell phone is that iNat pulls time and location off your photo automatically 19:22:00 From Ronald Arsenault to Everyone: Also, some cameras have a built-in GPS, so the picture file has both a time stamp and location coordinates. 19:23:50 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: In Nova Scotia, 1288 observations of at least 155 species in 2022, so far. 19:25:11 From Carol Morrison to Everyone: Where is GBIF located? 19:30:35 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: www.gbif.org/what-is-gbif 19:31:53 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: Global Biodiversity Information System. Depends on local 'collectors' (iNat, research collections and more) to provide the data. 19:33:18 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: Can you add an identification of the seeds in the bear scat? 19:36:37 From Tara to Everyone: All good here 19:36:52 From Shirley McIntyre to Everyone: Mine is fine 19:38:55 From Bethsheila Kent to Everyone: Do all Nova Scotia observations automatically get added to your project? 19:44:08 From Bethsheila Kent to Everyone: Can you go back to old observations and add the annotations? 19:46:42 From Ronald Arsenault to Everyone: The first flower in bloom in 2022 was a Mayflower on January 3rd! reported, with a picture, by Ervin Olsen. It was found at Port La tour, Shelburne Co. and posted on the Halifax Filed Naturalists Nova Scotia Nature Archive Facebook Group. 19:48:31 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: There are several places where best practices for observations are set out. Close ups of branches, buds, trunk, whole tree/shrub, habitat (and notes to add to photo). Trying to identify a tree from one photo is tough. 19:53:32 From Bethsheila Kent to Everyone: Thanks, Mary, Sorry I have to leave early. 19:57:42 From Kevin Moore to Everyone: what happens for a bioblitz that has lots of locations? Can you only add 3 a day? for example, a bioblitz of school grounds so every school might be listed 20:04:34 From NS Wild Flora Society to mkkennedy(Direct Message): Can hear it but not see it 20:05:00 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: If you do a blitz for a county, likely already there and no need to add a location? 20:11:34 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: Lichens are special. Partly because they are classified as the fungi partner, it is not easy to define what should be included. Therefore having people add their observations is close to the most pragmatic approach. 20:30:14 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: If you connect observations of the same plant in October, November, December, March, April, May, June --- great way to document phenology. Same plant every 5 years for 30 years, great way to document growth and development. 20:36:51 From Kevin Moore to Everyone: On iNat can you list multiple observers like on Ebird? So Ron enters a list of birds but tags me and 4 others so that list shows up in all our ebird observations 20:51:01 From Kevin Moore to Everyone: I'm trying to enter old birding records into ebird and that is taking forever. Trying to enter my wild flower photos (slides) going back to the 1970's would require far too much time. 20:56:06 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: iNaturalist project. Set up a project, set out how to recognize a trail tree. Take a photo with phone, make sure multiple photos to show characters of a trail tree. Also need photos to show characters that identify to species. Add either tag or note. Key is to make sure photos show both characters to identify to species and characters that show it is a trail tree. Notes are valuable in addition to the photos of characters. 20:57:20 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: I have identified many of Mary Macaulay's trees with tt. Until now, I had no idea that tt meant trail tree. Key is making sure communication is clear. 20:59:25 From mkkennedy to Everyone: No these are culturally modified trees. For a detailed explanation view the first third of my recent presentation here https://youtu.be/SLfNle2QpSk :) 21:01:28 From Louise Cook to Everyone: Since Mary's talk I have found a few trail trees near me in West Bay, Cape Breton 21:01:39 From Kevin Moore to Everyone: British Solider Lichen 21:13:09 From Gillian to Everyone: I just joined the City Nature Challenge group - I found it under projects and projects near me. Wonderful, thanks! 21:22:09 From davidpatriquin to Everyone: Here are some suggestions I wrote about what to take pics of for plants: http://versicolor.ca/sandylakebedford/species-lists/inaturalist-project/using-inaturalist/ 21:28:42 From davidpatriquin to Everyone: Thx. Mary Good info, stimulation. 21:31:19 From David_McCorquodale (COSEWIC Athropods) he/him to Everyone: Thanks Mary (K). 21:31:57 From Gillian to Everyone: And thanks, David, for your ID hints on the Bedford Sandy Lake page 21:33:08 From Beth McGee to Everyone: Thank you Mary. Really enjoyed your information! 21:34:18 From Gillian to Everyone: This is great food or flora for thought - quizzes and badges! Thanks everyone 21:34:19 From Kevin Moore to Everyone: Good night folks. Thanks Mary. 21:34:31 From paris to Everyone: thank you!