Four years - 1461 straight days - of iNaturalist observations

Well, today is a big day I guess. I just posted an observation to iNaturalist of a hummingbird in my backyard.https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195397005Not that big a deal unless you are living in some place where it is really cold and you are jealous we have hummingbirds in our yard in Davis, California on December 31.But the context here is important.This entry completes a somewhat crazy run. I have made iNaturalist observations every day for the last four years. That is, every day for the last 1461 days. It all started in January 2020. Before the pandemic reared its ugly head. I decided it might be fun to try and be more regular about iNaturalist postings. I had gotten into posting my observations there during 2018 and 2019 and then I saw on Twitter some people referring to an iNaturalist " Streak Finder " where you could look up how many days in a row someone posted observations. And many people were discussing how many they had. And my max # at the time was OK (max of 16) but not particularly high. And then I kind of forgot about it. But I was inspired by conversations with Laci Gerhart and I decided I would try to do an entry every day for all of 2020.https://twitter.com/phylogenomics/status/1214614081329487872And things of course got complicated quickly. First major complication -- I got called for Jury Duty and was selected as an alternate for a pretty serious case that in the end ended up lasting 3-4 weeks. And I was pr...
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