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Sibley app on Android

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Today I saw Cedar Waxwing’s in my backyard. That’s a first for our yard, plus for me.

Recently I got the Sibley app for my HTC EVO. I love it. It’s my favorite bird books in my phone, with added function, bird songs! I really love the way it works too, with a map for viewing with the key right there on every bird profile (easier than the books!) It’s great searching for birds and more. The audio for bird songs is awesome, it really made it super easy to absolutely identify the Cedar Waxwings without having a super closeup view of them.

Unfortunately I have had several force close errors, but I can get it right back up working. Hopefully something will work better with it in the future. (most notable when trying to “edit” My List. Unable to do so. Force Close.)

My plan is to eventually get a Nook Color, root it, and get this app on there to work. I hope I can do that soon, and I hope it’ll work!

I have to remember to leave a comment on the Android Market about my experience with force close with this app.

Laugh at yourself

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We are in Tampa for a couple of days. Thurs. we moved to a different hotel and the new one is right on the bay. We sat on the balcony and watched gulls and blackbirds flitting about for awhile. Then a new bird showed up and another just like it. I hadn’t thought of any of the shore birds as “gulls” just as sea, shore, birds, like that. So I got out my Sibley book I take around with me and didn’t find the gull section right off, puzzled over it and finally thought “GULL” and fastly found what I was looking for, eventually. At first it was evident that these new birds were different and after seeing a bird ID that is considered Rare in the book for this area I got out my Canon Digital Rebel camera and took several photos with my Canon long lens.

Satisfied that I had recorded enough digital data of the birds I sat down and looked hard at the identifying points in the Sibley book and realized that part of the ID I’d made was based on thinking and not thinking at the same time, with outside influence of my 10-year-old daughter pointing at the book. Right there on the previous page was a common bird, yeah, Laughing at me.

No matter. Laughing Gulls in juvenile feathers, then two come along in brilliant mature spring array. Worth a bumbling ID and some picture moments.