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Section 01

Field Notes

How to record what you noticed, in whatever form suits the visit.

04articles in this section, the latest published on 20/09/2026

A person sitting on a low wooden stool on a damp path, a small open notebook balanced on one knee, a pencil held loosely, a hand-drawn outline of a small insect filling a corner of the page with a coin drawn beside it for scale. A green leaf and a patch of bare earth are visible in the foreground. — No. FN-004 The full article and a detail cropped from the same illustration: Drawing When You Cannot Name a Plant or Insect.

Detail cropped from the same illustration: A person sitting on a low wooden stool on a damp path, a small open notebook balanced on one knee, a pencil held loosely, a hand-drawn outline of a small insect filling a corner of the page with a coin drawn beside it for scale. A green leaf and a patch of bare earth are visible in the foreground. — No. FN-004 The full article and a detail cropped from the same illustration: Drawing When You Cannot Name a Plant or Insect.

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No. FN-003 · Section 01

Describing a habitat in four lines

Learn how to write a four-line habitat description that makes two records comparable, using ground cover, height, light, water and edge.

Published 20/09/2026
No. FN-001 · Section 01

Field note formats that survive a walk

A practical field guide to picking a recording format for wet, cold or hurried conditions, comparing notebooks, folded sheets, phone audio and photographs.

Published 20/09/2026
No. FN-002 · Section 01

Separating observation from identification

How to write field notes that keep what you actually saw apart from what you guessed, using phrasing that a later reader can trust.

Published 20/09/2026