> I find my iPhone an essential part of my birding equipment nowadays. No longer do I need to carry several large field guides, I don't need to return to the car to look up birdsong on a cd. I even use it to digiscope unusual birds.
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> I have tried a few different apps and have found the most useful to be the Sibley field guide and BirdLog NA.
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> I have always been a Sibley user. I love his books and art. This is all that with the addition of sound and search features. I didn't enjoy the ibird app, but I think it personal preference as with paper field guides.
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> BirdLog NA is very useful. I can click away at my sightings as I go without getting too distracted from the birds. Then with one click it goes to ebird. Gone are the notebooks to carry (and get wet) and ages in front of a computer at home uploading to ebird.
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> Also available is BirdsEye. This allows you to look up interesting birds reported to ebird. It uses your gps or you can enter a location. You can give it your life list and it'll tell you of any "needs" in the area or you can look up certain species. I haven't used this much but it did find me my life Yellow-Billed Magpie in June.
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> That's my input on the subject.
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> Chris warlow
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> Olympia