Nearly all of Tennessee’s eastern harvest mouse records, 186 of 190, come from GBIF specimen and survey data rather than iNaturalist photographs; only four sightings were logged as casual observations. That split suggests this mouse is documented mostly through trapping surveys and museum records, not backyard photos, which fits a small, secretive rodent that’s easy to miss without deliberately searching grassy cover.
January stands out sharply in the record count: 19 entries, more than double any other month, while summer drops to one or two. A single well-timed survey could easily explain a spike like that in a dataset this size, so the January peak likely reflects when researchers were in the field rather than a true seasonal high for the species.
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