Only lacking 1! The sunrise is a bit hard since I'm never up at 6am lol.

[X] 1. Find some weeds

[X] 2. Find a rock with moss on it

[X] 3. Find a fruit tree - An apple tree..Its a bit early for leaves/fruit here, spring just started like yesterday

[X] 4. Find wild growing berries

[X] 5. Find shedded animmal hair/fur

[X] 6. Find a flock of birds

[X] 7. Find some litter and clean it up

[X] 8. Find insect/spider eggs

[X] 9. Find a sunset

[ ] 10. Find a sunrise
[X] 11. Find a flowering bush

[X] 12. Find a flowering tree

[X] 13. Find something with a shell - Freshwater clam

[X] 14. Find a baby mammal - baby monkey at the zoo!

[X] 15. Find a bird that is red - I hope this counts, its an American red breasted robin. We have cardinals here too but they're rare. The second image is just my tag since the bird was on the move and I had to zoom.

[X] 16. Find a yellow insect - a yellow jacket, he was stuck in a web. I freed him. He was very ungrateful though.

[X] 17. Find a fossil

[X] 18. Find something thorny

[X] 19. Find something goopy - mud
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[X] 20. Find something right outside your house that you find beautiful - There's a pond in the back yard :)

what about a thorny,flowing bush?Would that count as one or two?

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=60339&page=5#42 Author: Dragongem23 Time Posted: 4/22/2018 at 8:35 PM what about a thorny,flowing bush?Would that count as one or two?

Any one submission can only count as one objective. So you can choose which one to use it for and find something else for the other.

okay thanks

What if we edit in the Name and Date,cause i have one i just took,but i couldn't get the frog close enough to the paper without him freaking out.

Sorry for the many questions

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=60339&page=5#45 Author: Dragongem23 Time Posted: 4/22/2018 at 9:03 PM What if we edit in the Name and Date,cause i have one i just took,but i couldn't get the frog close enough to the paper without him freaking out. Sorry for the many questions

The instructions say you can take a second picture with the name/date (at the same place and similar time) if you cannot get it in the picture with the target.

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=60339&page=5#43 Author: Krinadon Time Posted: 4/22/2018 at 8:37 PM [quote=1231944] Any one submission can only count as one objective. So you can choose which one to use it for and find something else for the other.

When you say 'any one submission' are you referring to a specific picture, or to a physical object?
For example, I took a picture of a rose on a rose bush in my front yard for something beautiful just outside my house, and then I took a picture of one of the branches for something thorny, and finally the bush itself as a flowering bush.

If needed I have two other rosebushes in the front yard I, so I can take pictures of each bush for a different requirement, but I was under the impression that the requirement was just a new picture for each item on the list.

Dragoil's scavenger hunt list
(Note may use different cameras so image quality will vary as I am borrowing most)

[ ] 1. Find some weeds

[ ] 2. Find a rock with moss on it

[ ] 3. Find a fruit tree (cherry tree in full bloom XD)

[ ] 4. Find wild growing berries (This is an ivy that is growing wild and has a few black berries left, They are hard to see but there. hopefully counts)

[ ] 5. Find shedded animal hair/fur (Dog fur on front door mat)

[ ] 6. Find a flock of birds (Mallard ducks, there were 11 but I could not get them to bunch up!)

[ ] 7. Find some litter and clean it up

[ ] 8. Find insect/spider eggs (edge of door frame outside.. ewww)

[ ] 9. Find a sunset (one beautiful sunset shot, and one with my user name in focus XD)

[ ] 10. Find a sunrise (Hopefully counts, sun ride over my mountain)

[ ] 11. Find a flowering bush (love its smell, some kind of beauty bush I think)

[ ] 12. Find a flowering tree (this is a different cherry we have, I have three cherry trees)

[ ] 13. Find something with a shell

[ ] 14. Find a baby mammal (This is Luka, a 4month old Shetland sheep dog x Black Lab puppy, He was an absolute sweetie and with his mom's help I snapped a photo :) )

[ ] 15. Find a bird that is red (House Finch)


[ ] 16. Find a yellow insect (How perfect! I wanted to just get the bee with a flower in front and said bee desided to land on my uder name paper! If you can't see it, look above my D and you will see my honey Bee)

[ ] 17. Find a fossil (Ammolite and fossil clam, found at the river, I took this one home as I collect them)

[ ] 18. Find something thorny

[ ] 19. Find something goopy (Tree sap, its goopy, sticky, and a pain to clean off, tons weeping from this pine tree)

[ ] 20. Find something right outside your house that you find beautiful (This is the wisteria that is in bloom Literally right outside my front door, it is currently acting as a beautiful curtain from the sun.)

I'm with many others here :/ Being one of the people from one of those areas that are very much not at all favored, i can say from experience that most of things are not possible to find in many areas. Yes, i understand not everyone is going to find everything and its not expected for people /to/ find everything. But in all reality, people in certain areas have a better chance of finding a majority of these things. Its always been that way with this game, but typically I am at least able to hit the participation amount. Thats not the case this time around. I went through earlier and counted how many I may /potentially/ be able to find. With pure luck, I could find maybe 9 of them. That doesn't qualify for participation credit, so i may as well not even bother.

Its disappointing because this has /always/ been one of my fave forum games, despite always being on hard mode because of the climate i'm in when it occurs(City in the desert is highly unfavored for these sorts of things). I don't /want/ to just sit it out, because I do enjoy this game and have honestly looked forward to it all year.

I happen to be both on the "its still winter here" side and the "these things dont naturally occur at any time..." sides and /still/ can only get 9 things between 2 different states. And thats even including things that I can /possibly/ stretch the meaning of. And while I do appreciate the contest being posted early since it does mean that personally i do get that 2 state benefit due to lucky timing, its...not all that helpful when the list favors such a specific section of the world.

(In terms of red birds, since that one was specifically mentioned: in my hometown, w only have 2 types of birds that have red on them at all. Both are very rare to see, and tend not to venture too far into the city where I live. I'd have to be very lucky to see them(they are one of the 9 things I may be able to find). I see one maybe every other year, and that includes ones that end up at the wildlife rehab center my mom works at.)

The list doesnt have to be "boring and generic" to be inclusive. Atm, the list is very much either "you can get almost all if not all of these" or "you can get hardly any". Theres many things that a more dessert or cold area would not be able to find, but not anything that a more moderate area like the midwest wouldn't be able to find. It'd be one thing if there were things that a city dweller or a desert dweller could find that maybe a non-city/desert dweller couldn't find very easily. (for example, a desert dweller might find a cactus, but someone outside of the desert likely wouldnt. Someone in one of the "its still winter" areas might be able to find something thats still cold or soemthign like that. Neither of those are any more generic than a flowering bush/tree or soemthign thorny, but allow for more areas to be involved. And those are just examples.)

Again, I say this because it is one of my fave contests on here and I've looked forward to it all year. Its horribly disappointing to not even be able to qualify for participation purely because of where I live (which isnt always a persons choice)

This will be interesting.
I havent been outside for quite some time.

Also, does it count as "wild growing berries" if they haven't appeared yet? I have wild raspberries growing behind my shed, but theres no raspberries on it.