iNaturalist allows you to post photos of individual plants or animals you encounter so others can help you confirm an identification.  You can use it to submit your own wildlife sightings in Richmond to the global database. Another useful feature of this resource is that you can sort your search for organism sightings to a single taxonomic group. (E.g. you can set a filter to only show you plant sightings near you). Explore plant and wildlife observations submitted to iNaturalist in Richmond Hill here: https://inaturalist.ca/observations?place_id=197851 

eBird is a free program that allows you to keep track of all the birds you find. In contrast to iNaturalist, it uses a checklist model were you can list the numbers and species of birds you see at one spot within an outing. Reports of rarer birds are confirmed by volunteer reviewers based on descriptions and photos. Explore bird sightings in York Region here: https://ebird.org/region/CA-ON-YO