Technology can be such a help
I had a wonderful evening of bird watching last night. As I stood on the bridge watching the tide flow back into the marshes I noticed a of what thought were ducks floating on the water.
taking my dSLR camera (a pentax k-r) I snapped a few pictures of them and returned to my car.
I love my gadgets and I'm never far from them, so pulling out my iPhone I opened up the Audubon Bird App to confirm which type of Duck I'd seen. Turns out they (a male and female) were not ducks at all. Hmm, so spending a few minutes comparing the photo on my camera to the ID photo's and description on the app I was able to make an ID of a Red-breasted Merganser. While not rare in my area, they were still a first for me !!
I was able to use my Birdlog app to up load all of my checklists for the evening to ebird while still the field which makes my accuracy sooooo much better.
