Spotting

Interesting spotting Caroline,if you can adeed more photos of the tree and of the pine cones would be easier for the id process :-) congrats ,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :-)
i hope you like the site and the community as much we do.
There are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq ,there you will find the most frequent questions and the "rules" :-) of project noah.
You have also the chats links where you can ask for elp on the ID process and comment on your's and other's spottings.There are also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where you can read articls of our best specialist in the several fields of wildlife allover the world and also storys from our most knowned users wildlife experiences.
Spottings are added to missions to make easier the users acess to the data,in the missions link http://www.projectnoah.org/missions you can find all the missions we have,some are local and others global,the local missions have a range,so before joined them you should see if your spotting area is according to the range in the map mission.
enjoy yourself see you arround :-)