Hey – I'm Joss!

I'm currently in the 3rd and final year of my Geography BA at Oxford University.

I am a generalist obsessed with documenting nature of all sorts wherever I go, and I have a particular interest in urban wildlife. Right now I am working towards learning to identify all the common species in the UK. From there I hope to get to grips with the tricky stuff and start repaying my debts by identifying for others.

I am immensely grateful to the iNat community for all the identifications made on my observations and for inspiring my obsession with the natural world.

Some random achievements that I'm personally proud of:

• 31st top observer in the UK
• Top observer in Oxfordshire, UK

• A couple first time records for the UK (on iNaturalist) including:
  this bindweed: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193613057
  this water beetle: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199507106
  this millipede (world first at time of upload): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/186411790

Some of my other favourite personal observations:

• Hector's Dolphins in New Zealand, easily the best day of my life: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179570816
• Gooseneck Barnacles growing on an old glass medicine bottle: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194205940
• Goldfinches having a bath: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197554677
• Lions, jackals and hyenas in S. Africa https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185815337

Can help with IDs for:

• UK springtails (orders Entomobryomorph and Poduromorpha)