Jonas WisserToday's small friends are a coy northern mockingbird with cold feet and an American goldfinch who refuses to let a possible source of food go unexplored.
Erik@edebill Oh—possibly also worth mentioning that I keep a daily species list along with the first time that day each species turned up and timestamps for any notable events. For example, yesterday I had more goldfinches in the yard at once than I've ever had at this house, so there's a line that reads:
• American goldfinch (7:38; 8:02, x7)
@jwisser nice. I keep an occasional list for the day, but don’t try to quantify and only rarely note gender or maturity when it’s unusual. I’m mainly looking to answer “is it normal to have cedar waxwings this time of year?” and similar phenology type questions.
@edebill Yeah, that's mostly why I keep it as well. I've honestly considered shifting it to a spreadsheet or database or something but for now it's just daily notes in Bear. I do create it with a Shortcut though, so I can autofill some details about the date, time of dawn, etc.
