Using Sightings
Log wildlife sightings with species, notes, and photos, then browse every Field Chronicle observation across outings.
Field Chronicle isn’t trying to be “another photo gallery”—it’s trying to be the operating system for your time in the field.
A sighting is one observation on an outing: what you saw, with optional notes and photographs. Sightings is also the browse surface for every observation you have recorded, not only the one you just logged. The outing stays the hub; the sighting is the animal on that day.
12 Apr · Coastal marsh
Morning scrape
07:40Ridge overlook
15:10
Select a sighting to open the workspace.
Sightings lists every observation across outings — grouped by day, with species strips on each row.
Log what you saw
From an outing or from Sightings, add a record. On a phone in the Field Journal map, the + control opens a species search (previous sightings first) and saves with the current time and GPS. Choose the species, write notes that will still make sense next year (behavior, count, uncertainty), and attach photos when they help. Wikipedia context is available for identification and background; your note is still the journal entry.
Browse across outings
The Sightings list is built for review: filter, sort, and open a workspace with species info, map, and photographs. Use it when you remember the bird but not the day, or when you want every record of one taxon in one place.
Why sightings are more than a tick
A name without notes is easy to forget—and a name used only as an editor keyword never carries the morning. A sighting tied to an outing, a pin, and a photograph is something you can argue with later: did the light match, was it a juvenile, was this the same stretch of river? That is the value for birders and for photographers who need the frame and the ID to stay together.
See also Species / life list, Field Journal, and the birder or photographer guides.