If you are having trouble getting good photos of flying insects, try this.
Eurasian Tree Sparrow in South Dakota
This Eurasian tree sparrow showed up in my yard in southeast South Dakota. Watch the video to learn more about this unusual bird.
Mussels of ND, SD, NE, KS, MN, IA, MO
I use iNaturalist to document mussels that I find and so do countless others. iNaturalist is an app for your smartphone but its also a website. Visit iNaturalist. All links in this post take you to iNaturalist mussel projects. The mussel projects are defined to include mussels for each state. Furthermore you can look at the Project Journals for news about the project you are viewing.
Mussels are not well documented. But its not super difficult to photograph them and submit them to iNaturalist. Most mussels you find will be out of the water and will not be alive. I recommend 3 images for these shells. One of outside, one of the inside, and one of the hinge side. To help spread the word about mussels I created 7 project for states in the center of the country. I listed the states from north to south, west to east. I hope you will join any projects for states you live in or near and submit observations of mussels.