Audio Recording/listening of birds (1 Viewer)

I wasn't sure which are of the forum to post my question.

I am interested in recording/listening to bird sounds using a shotgun microphone
and headphones so far all of the blogs I've come across talk about very expensive and what seems like legacy hardware to achieve the results.

$799 for a CF recorder seems crazy to me heck some of the articles mentioned
Sony HI-MD Recorder which I used to have one except it was over 10years ago.

So are there any recommendations for a solid affordable solution I know the microphone will be expensive so I am ok with that but the recorder I was thinking maybe there's a SD solution? Portable with clear level readouts

There's a forum dedicated to sound recordings and equipment a bit further down on this site, and I'm sure you'll get more knowledgeable responses there.

Andrea

I use a inexpensive Panasonic Voice Recorder with built-in flash memory as it is over eight years old and didn't have removable flash cards at the time.

I then picked up a computer microphone from a "clearance rack" at the local electronics store and the total investment was under $50. The microphone has a long cord 60" and a flexible mounting neck 12" long.

If you use the voice recorder with the built-in mic it picks up all the sounds of your finger movements on the device and the external mic eliminates all of that unwanted noise. I use "Audacity" on my Fedora Linux computer to edit the files.

phil