Another Mac birding program that just so happens to be free and very
robust, though a bit complicated to grasp without carefully following the
guide, is called Wings <http://homepage.mac.com/wings_4d/>.

This is a great topic. It reminds me of reading British writer Mark
Cocker's book, "Birders: Tales of a Tribe". If I remember correctly, he
devotes an entire chapter to his obsession with finding just the right
birding journals and how he and other would buy multiple copies of their
favorite journals in order to ensure that they would have an ongoing
supply on hand. His obsession is reminiscent of some people's - ok, mine
too... - obsession with fountain pens.

As for the kind of journals I use to keep bird lists and other notes
about the natural world while out in the field, I have used a number of
different types. I love ring-bound journals with 5 x 7 blank paper of a
heavy grade that can be used for listing as well as drawing, but my
current notebooks of choice are shirt pocket sized (3 x 5) all-weather
notebooks from Rite in the Rain <www.riteintherain.com> . I write small
and just use a pencil on the waterproof paper and it works great. In
fact, after returning home from a recent trip along the Oregon Coast I
managed to leave the notebook in a pants pocket and to run it through the
washing machine. All of my notes were still there when I retrieved the
notebook from the washer...

Happy birding!

--
Rob McNair-Huff ---------- Tacoma, WA
Author of Birding Washington (Falcon Publishing, 2004)
and Insider's Guide to the Olympic Peninsula (Globe Pequot, 2001)
White Rabbit Publishing ---- http://www.whiterabbits.com
Mac Net Journal ---------- http://www.macnetjournal.com
The Equinox Project ------ http://www.whiterabbits.com/weblog.html

>....or if you1re a Mac person, Bird Brain <http://www.birdwatching.com> is a
>super way of keeping track of what you saw, where and when.
>
>Roger Olstad
>Lake Forest Park
>>
>> From: "Martyn Stewart" <mstew at naturesound.org>
>> Reply-To: mstew at naturesound.org
>> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:21:08 -0700
>> To: <n.lander at comcast.net>, "'Tweets'" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>> Subject: RE: Life Lists
>>
>
>> Nancy
>>
>>
>>
>> You can make a simple life list with any method you choose and that
>will work
>> best for you, If you use a computer there are many excellent pieces of
>> software that will do this for you or you can use something simple as
Excel,
>> from Microsoft.
>>
>> Every bird you see, you tick it off your 3life list2 Say for instance
>you only
>> ever bird in Washington State, there are some 471 plus birds there, you
>see an
>> American Crow, you tick it off and now you have 470, left to find! You
>make a
>> note of the Date, how many you have seen and location, Simple eh?
>>
>> Here is a website with Washington Birds listed, you can copy there into a
>> database for your records.
>>
>> http://www.wos.org/WAList01.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> The there is the excellent Avisys birding database
>>
>> http://www.avisys.net/
>>
>> or the one I choose to use
>>
>> http://thayerbirding.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Martyn J
>>
>> Martyn Stewart
>> Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
>> http://www.naturesound.org
>> N47.65543 W121.98428
>> Redmond. Washington. USA
>> Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
>>
>> The Spring is cum
>> The grass is riz
>> I wonder where the birdies is?
>>
>> The birdies on the wing!
>> Nah, that's absoid
>> D' wing is on d' boid!
>> .........................
>>
>>
>> From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu [mailto:TWEETERS-
>owner at u.washington.edu]
>> On Behalf Of Nancy
>> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:31 AM
>> To: Tweets
>> Subject: Life Lists
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Tweeters,
>>
>> How do people construct a life list? Is there any special format? Do you
>> include place, time, quantities or just the bird name?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> Renton, WA
>>
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