iNaturalist after 18 months

Unbelievably, this New Year (2025) our iNaturalist project has been running for 18 months, so here is a round-up of some of the features of the project.

The basic summary statistics of the project are shown in the graphic below - if you hover over it, you can see that we have a heroic 63 observers out there, who between them have made 2184 observations of an incredible 824 species, be. they mammals, birds or plants. In this wet cold weather, fungi are really making an appearance. Thank you so much to all 63, that's quite a haul. Can we make 2025 even better, especially when the days get a bit longer?

The most recent observations are shown below (as of 01/01/2025). Thanks to everybody who keeps going out there and observing, regardless of rain, dark and mud. And yes - domesticated species count too! There is a lot of fungi around, as mentioned. It's their kind of conditions, as the plants are back to sticks.

Certain species keep cropping up, and the most common are shown below. It's heartening to see two species of bee in this list, given the uncertain status of these vital pollinators. However, people are likely to record species they like more than ordinary stuff that's around in the background, so we can't really put too much weight on this observation. What we can say is that Appleton plays host to quite a range of species, in all taxa.