Biodiversity of Bedford Project's Journal

Journal archives for July 2019

July 10, 2019

Biodiversity of Bedford iNaturalist event this fall

Hey everyone -

First of all, have you all checked out the "Biodiversity of Bedford (BOB)" project?? https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/biodiversity-of-bedford

We have over 1,300 species documented in Bedford! We have over 5,400 observations, and I am sure we could get to well over 2,500 species quickly if any of you wanted to spend a little bit of time Identifying species for us that you are familiar with. iNaturalist has a great Identifier tool, which allows you to filter what you identify. For example, here it is filtered for our project:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=39472

Anyway, along with two of our "BOB" superstars Fiona (@fmitchell), Filippine (@filippine) I am hosting an iNaturalist training event at our barn in Bedford this fall. We are aiming for a weeknight event in mid September. The event will include iNaturalist presentations & training, as well as socializing and some cocktails and food. We'd like to grow the numbers of people and expertise of our "Biodiversity of Bedford" group, and we'd also like to plan for a much larger, Westchester-wide event in early 2020.

Will you all help us make this event successful? We'll need all kinds of people who share our enthusiasm for observing, documenting, protecting and restoring biodiversity in Bedford!

We don't have a date yet, but wanted to put it on your radar. We are aiming for around 40 people.

Thanks!
Murray (and Fiona and Filippine)

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July 22, 2019

SAVE THE DATE: Biodiversity of Bedford event Sunday, September 29th

Hey everyone!

Thanks for all your great observations! We are now up to 1,440 Research Grade species in Bedford! That's incredible, to me. I know we can confirm thousands more, so if you are up for it, please use the Identify tool on the iNaturalist website: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=39472

But the real reason for this post is to announce our first-ever Biodiversity of Bedford event on Sunday, September 29th from 12:30pm-3pm. We're going to do it in our barn in Bedford Village, located at 50 Pound Ridge Road. Parking will be available in the Town Parking Lot behind the Presbyterian Church! Should be plenty of parking available as the service ends at 12pm noon. We'll have food and drinks for everyone - we are currently seeking a partner restaurant to help cater the event. (50 people max)

We'll have some presentations about iNaturalists and lots of experts (like you all!) on hand to help with training to use iNaturalist for observations and identifications. The goal of the event is to introduce the residents of Bedford to the amazing living organisms that surround them, with the hope of developing people into naturalists.

There will be a City Nature Challenge (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2020) hosted by iNaturalist during Earth Day weekend (April 25,26, 2020), and we'd like to register Westchester County to participate.

I'll be posting something weekly to lead up to our September event, including more details on schedule and attendees. But for now we wanted you all to SAVE THE DATE!

Best,
Murray (@swampchicken) & Filippine (@filippine)

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