📜 EwA Week Highlights: City Nature Challenge & More Ephemerals

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Mike McGlathery

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EwA Highlights

April 28, 2024

Hello everyone!


Thanks for reading the April 28th edition of the EwA highlights. The City Nature Challenge is this weekend, and if you haven’t gotten to participate yet, don’t worry—you can still take observations through tomorrow! After that, there will be a four-day period in which you can help identify species as well.

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📸 I think there’s something wondrous about the framing of this photo Claire took of a white-striped running crab spider (Philodromus rufus) this week. The out-of-focus, huge looking leaves help to give a sense of the spider’s size.


EwA iNaturalist Record (© Claire O’Neill · Medford, MA · Apr. 20, 2024)

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The variety of spring flowers you can observe in the Boston area is increasing by the day. Joe observed this downy blue violet (Viola fimbriatula) in the Middlesex Fells on Friday.


EwA iNaturalist Record (© Joe MacIndewar · Stoneham, MA · Apr. 26, 2024)

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EwA had two different species tied for most-observed on iNaturalist this week, and both of them were plants: bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) and wood anemone (Anemonoides quinquefolia). Both of these are currently-flowering spring ephemerals, and Ashley observed this wood anemone on Tuesday.


EwA iNaturalist Record (© ashleykm25 · Medford, MA · Apr. 23, 2024)

📊 Thanks to everyone for your great biodiversity records this past week, totaling 838 observations of 451 distinct species. If you’re curious about the records from this week that have been validated by the iNat community so far, you can find them » here.


🏆 Running tally: To date, we have recorded 178,499 observations of 10,759 distinct species! Check out our EwA umbrella project, see the details per site/observer, and more » here.


📅 EwA Upcoming Public Events

Ewa Field Events » Check the EwA Spring [ Event details and registration » ] Don’t miss some great opportunities to follow the rhythm of the season in our local habitats and in the local wildlife! Space is limited for all our field events. Wildlife ethics is important to us and we seek to avoid putting the pressure on natural habitats which large gatherings unavoidably do. We are asking our audience to register-and-commit (or cancel when you know you can’t come) to avoid no-shows.


EwA Fieldwork (and Resources)

It’s a great time to join our monitoring programs. Check EwA’s Volunteer Program Calendar 📅  to know when things happen. And if a session is of interest to you, don’t hesitate to reach out to get the rendezvous location.


📅 EwA Sites Map | 🌱 Site Protocols and Guides · Field Rosters · Field Notes » All here! | ℹ️ More about EwA’s Citizen Science Program » Here


❓ Do you have any questions? Don’t be shy. Just email me or reply to this thread. 


That’s all for this week—hope you have a good one!


-Mike

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