I have yet to find anyone who keeps bird notes beyond a list on ebird, so I setup my notebook my own way...

To make bird notes easy to look up I numbered them in the same order as the life list, but I feel no pressure to fill them all in. I don't usually reserve sections in notebooks but this seemed worth it. Most commercial/pre-printed bird journals have a reserved section for each species.

Same as the bird list, I added old memories here

I like including notes by bird because it gives an easy way to figure out where to find them. I organize my urban foraging notebook this way too, by plant, so I can easily figure out options for gathering public fennel or plums or whatever

Video from the day of that Northern Saw-whet bird note in 2017. Little owl sleeping in the city, directly outside my third floor bedroom window. Seems like sleeping in a windy tree might feel similar to sleeping on a boat.

#birds #owls

I love this photo because you can see a chickadee perched above the owl, screaming, which is how I notice owls 90% of the time

#birds #owls #chickadees

Dated notes section is the one part i did not add any retroactive info to. Just free pages to add notes from outings and classes if i want to. My goal is to include sketches even if they aren't great

Most of my notebooks are various grimoires so I am in the habit of dedicating them. Seemed apropos to dedicate each section of this one to a bird

People have different rules for life lists... I have never been a serious birder but I have been a casual birder my whole life. Lot of girl guide badges and relatives who always bring binoculars. So I started my list from the beginning, from memory

Lol I just want to add that this is a photo of white paper that I took outdoors with southern exposure literally at noon. PNW winter gloom is no joke

@beandreams The gloomdamp is real.

@jmeowmeow Nice weather for vampires

#FountainPens peeps, these Opus notebooks are $12 canadian and have 224 pages of nice paper and a built-in pen loop. BC local business too

@beandreams ouu is there a specific name/size for this Opus (I assume the art brand) notebook? thank you for sharing your setup and how it works with inks

@dirchansky Essential Dot Grid Notebook, only comes in blue A5 size.

https://opusartsupplies.com/products/opus-essential-dot-grid-notebook

I have yet to find anyone who keeps bird notes beyond a list on ebird, so I setup my notebook my own way... Little bit log book, little bit nature journal, little bit grimoire.

Sharing because I love looking at other people's notebooks so maybe you do too

#birding #notebooks #journals #grimoires

@beandreams
I have a similar bird/plant notebook.

@scandigonian Birds and plants together?

@beandreams
Kind of like a calendar -- what the birds and plants (and bugs) are doing at different times of the year.

I love this photo because you can see a chickadee perched above the owl, screaming, which is how I notice owls 90% of the time

#birds #owls #chickadees