I was inspired by a journal posted by @marknenadov earlier this week. I've set goals for my birding but I've never set any broader goals as a naturalist. Lots of them are still bird related.

1. Create a full slate of birding field trips for the Central Valley Bird Club.
2. Complete an eBird checklist per day.
3. Complete the eBirder of the Month challenges.
4. Get my bird lists to 100 in every California county.
5. Get all my California county checklists into eBird as historical lists.
6. Get my state bird life list over 475 species.
7. Visit my last two California counties.
8. Enter 365 observations on iNaturalist in the year.
9. See a black bear and enter it in iNaturalist.
10. Enter 10 new species of mammals for me into iNaturalist.
11. Organize a mini iNaturalist BioBlitz for the Koobs Nature Center project site.
12. Get a fishing license and try microfishing.

I think those are solid goals for now. I have been keeping up with the daily eBird checklists so far for the year but I have fallen behind on iNaturalist observations. I imagine that will be more of a situation where I don't do it all the time but then I catch up by doing 20 in a day. To anyone reading this what are some of your goals for 2017?

Posted on January 10, 2017 12:23 AM by vermfly