Birders

Jamastiene

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4. I may have to do just that.

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 12:55 AM

Dec 2011

I like the spreadsheet idea too. I could go through my field guide and maybe make categories (water related birds, songbirds, birds that hang out on the ground mostly, or just copy the way they have it in my field guide). Then again, what you are saying would make more sense. Just use the Field guide. I had better do something while the eastern towhee dates are fresh in my mind. I'll forget those dates. I won't forget where I saw a bird, but I can't keep dates in my head to save me.

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Do you keep your life list in an actual journal, on the computer, or in your head? [View all] Jamastiene Dec 2011 OP

I notate in my Peterson Field Guide. GentryDixon Dec 2011 #1

Me too jpak Dec 2011 #6

I use Microsoft Excel spreadsheet cpwm17 Dec 2011 #2

It took me a while to get over the stigma against writing in books XemaSab Dec 2011 #3

I may have to do just that. Jamastiene Dec 2011 #4

If you're thinking about things like arrival dates XemaSab Dec 2011 #5

partly my head, mostly in a notebook I take with me on vacations... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2011 #7

It's all in my head. stevedeshazer Dec 2011 #8

You can purchase a nice birder's journal from Nat Geo semillama Dec 2011 #9

Is that different than the National Geographic Society's Jamastiene Dec 2011 #10

Yes. It's a journal with all the North American bird species semillama Dec 2011 #11