Last OLLI iNaturalist Class on Wed, May 4, 2022 at 9 am

Last Minute Update: Tomorrow, we may go to Prime Hook NWR to see these beautiful Pink Lady-Slipper Orchids photographed by Sally just hours ago.  We will still meet at OLLI to organize our plan.  Click on pic to enlarge. 

 

Hello Class,

Just a reminder that from 8 to 9 am tomorrow, there is a Continental Breakfast in the Trinity Education Building, so immediately before our class.  Events like this are a very good opportunity to meet other OLLI members and discuss like interests. 

For our class tomorrow, we will make every reasonable effort to have a field trip as outlined in the previous post, but of course we will not venture out in heavy rain or thunderstorms.  I am game to head out in a drizzle, and will have light rain gear.

As I also mentioned in the previous post, in case rain forces us to stay in the classroom, I will come prepared with some "chilled" live moths we can photograph and upload the pics to iNaturalist.  So last night I set my moths traps out, and now have 14 chilled moths of various species. 

But here's hoping for a break in the weather and an outdoor field trip.

Bill

Moths, Birds and Nature on iNaturalist

 Course Content Doc for Bill Fintel’s  iNaturalist Course Spring 2022

 

In this course we will do the following:

 

• Learn about iNaturalist as a user friendly record keeping program to track nature observations worldwide.

 

• Bill will review some of his over 1,000 entries, and show how the AI aspect of iNaturalist can be used to help identify a species from a photograph

 

• Class members will be encouraged to establish an iNaturalist account, photograph some specimens of their favorite wildlife (animals or plants), and upload the photos to their  iNaturalist account.

 

• Class members should have a means of logging onto the Internet while at class.  OLLI has some class-available Laptops & i-Pads.

 

• It is tentatively planned during the course to take at least one field trip to photograph wildlife.  A cell phone camera will suffice for taking wildlife photos.

 

Want a preview of Bill's iNaturalist account, go here (probably have to copy and paste): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/bill6711

I suspect in some ways..... mentally, physically, or both, we are all Wandering Albatrosses :)