ipomopsis's Journal

I finally started a project for this and I found a few observations by other people around the world. Might be interesting to see which species show up the most. Likely Coyote.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/feces-scat-with-trash

I started two new projects in addition to my scat containing trash project.
One for trees struck by lightning and another for recovering damaged trees.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/damaged-trees-db6c43b1-fea6-4c65-bdc9-d61c3b4dcf50
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lightning-strikes

It took me a while combing through Inaturalist but I was amazed at how many observations I found of lighting strikes. So cool!

I have spent a few hours doing various searches on here to find observations of lightning strikes on nature.
I have run out of ideas for now on what to search for.
I find it interesting that I found no observations for Africa or South America. Either there aren't as many observers there, I am searching the wrong species, I am not able to search due to the language difference, or lightning evidence is different via too wet or dry conditions.

I did my best to search all the types of trees I could think of. The taxonomy tree is a bit difficult to capture all tree species.

I know there are probably a lot more observations, but the observer didn't include any wording in their description that I could search for. I did try searching via a couple different major languages too.

I am surprised at how many I found. When starting this project, I didn't expect to find that many. I also didn't add some observations that hinted at lightning but I could not verify from the photos. Some observations are just too much hearsay and speculation with not enough evidence.

I just quickly scanned all scat obervations in California and Colorado. Apparently I am one of the only people who finds scat with trash in it. I'm a little surprised and maybe my area is just doing a very poor job keeping animals out of the trash or there is a larger wildlife human interface.

If you want to help scan for other observations, you can use this link and change the location "Place" in the filter.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=1927-10-05&d2=2019-04-28&place_id=34&subview=map&term_id=22&term_value_id=25&verifiable=any

If you do scan an area, please leave a comment so we don't repeat work.