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    Tried a new use on a birding app

    Again... I tried something new (well, for me it's new...don't forget...I'm a real newbie!) 1. I used the Audubon app and selected a place (Alondra Park Reservoir) 2. I looked up the birds that have been seen there recently (just the ones I didn't know by name yet which is most of them) 3. This...
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    Tried a new use on a birding app

    I've enjoyed the field guides a lot but they've been useless to me out in the field. As a newbie I'm at some place, I see yet another bird that I don't know the name of so I grab the field guide and it takes me a bit just to get to the right section and when I'm close it always seems like the...
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    Tried a new use on a birding app

    Actually, I have Merlin but it only list the birds and their general location on on a United States map whereas the Audubon apps list the town near you where the "hot spots" are, what's been seen there and what time they were seen. An example would be Torrance, CA, at Madronna Marsh Preserve or...
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    Tried a new use on a birding app

    As a NEWBIE I've bought some field guides (National Geographic + Sublet) and though I like them they put me in "Information Overload". I tried a smaller one for my location, Peterson Field Guide for Western North America but still had overload. Then a few more to make it even simpler and more...
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    New member to the "cult"

    Thanks for the welcomes and replies! I've learned that not all bird books are the same. I went to a small park with a pond (Alondra park) and was able to find almost all the birds in the Peterson field guide...all except 2. I found one of them (Muscovy duck) in the Sibley (and now everyone...
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    New member to the "cult"

    Well, I'm 68 and retired. I've been watching too much TV. My ENTRY started with the movie The Big Year. I rented it once, saw it twice, then bought the DVD. I think the bug got me! Of course a lot of internet searching, then 3 books (National Geographic, Sibley, then a Peterson Field Guide)...
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