BioBlitz encore!

Thank you to everyone who turned out and helped at the DC BioBlitz last weekend! I was overwhelmingly tied up making sure that everyone else ended up where they needed to be, but I did have a chance to help @rachelstephenson and @figgtails make some of their first iNaturalist observations on Saturday afternoon at Constitution Gardens when one of our experts was unable to make it. There was so much to look at with our Easy Macros that we spent the whole time in one small patch of lawn!

Since I didn’t get to do much exploring on my own during the event, we had a BioBlitz encore on Sunday at Dyke Marsh with @loarie, @calopteryx, @reallifeecology, and some young naturalists! We also ran into @lynnparsons and some other BioBlitzers. My daughter said the best part was throwing rocks in the water with @reallifeecology’s son Cypress but I loved the huge crayfish!

It was especially great to go out with out-of-town supernaturalists @loarie and @reallifeecology. Scott had to head back to California but Jonathan and his family along with Matthew O’Donnell came back to hang out and have dinner at my place (and make a few more observations in my yard).

Posted on May 29, 2016 05:02 AM by carrieseltzer