...and over the last few weeks I've started indexing my own birding diaries .... and there's a lot of them. And I can thoroughly recommend it to all of you out there in the ornithosphere. ( I'm hoping that neologism is going to sweep through the, er, ornithosphere ) For a start, I can now quickly and easily access all sorts of things .. like, for example, how many visits per year I've made to Grumbling Stumps, my local Hornithological Hotspot. And how often I've encountered various birders whom I'd rather not see. That way I can get an insight as to which days they tend to be there, and more interestingly, which days they don't ! The only downside is .... I've got about 50 years of diaries to get through.... ..and that's a lot of words... almost biblically-long The Significant Otter, my companion in what I like to think of as "life" is quite pleased, as indexing keeps me busy, and relatively quiet. Here's some of my other "indexing " "thingies." They're all fascinating, in their own idiosyncratic ways ... 101-toads-swifts-binoculars-all-human-life-is-here.html -134-that-index-and-a-better-one.html 232-kerwacky-wack-twit-pee-oo-etc.html 491-more-index-fun.html 789-yet-another-index.html 830-a-mystery-index-from-the-distant-past.html Here's the wonderful " Music Spot" .... ... an there's only ONE bird in it .... keep looking carefully ... .......and here's the "sing-along-with-Diam's version ... you know you want to ...
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