Why reinvent the wheel and ask for species observations in a totally separate app when we can encourage people to link their observations with those of thousands of people around the world with iNaturalist, run by our friends at the California Academy of Sciences. We love using iNaturalist, and are showing you what it's like. Here's Dr. Emily Curd using it on UCLA campus.
We encourage citizen scientists to use this companion app to make observations and add them to our iNaturalist project page called CALeDNA