Does anyone have a good template for setting out garden records? I have a few years of records (all passed on the Country Recorder - thank you Dave and Martin for incorporating). But I would like to think of a neat way of setting out records for myself, probably printing them off. Otherwise they just sit in Excel or other files and don't get looked at again.
I remember seeing a (very impressive) report on here, and my records are more piecemeal.
Any top tips?
Barnaby Briggs, Iver
Hello Barnaby,
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure quite what you are trying to achieve here. Is this for all your records, or just a species list which will provide you with a "running total" of what you've seen in your garden? I realise that I go in for overkill when it comes to records (a diary in Word, spreadsheets in Excel and - eventually each year - everything put into MapMate), but Excel is very useful indeed for keeping and manipulating lists and I use it most days. Do you prefer not to use Excel?
Hi Barnaby, like Dave I'm not quite sure what you wish to do, but it might be worth noting that if you put your records into the national database (iRecord), you can examine these records in a variety of ways. One click will bring up 'My Data Summary' - a simple table of your total number of records and total number of species verified on the database. In more detail under a separate tab you can 'Explore My Records', which lists all your records in columns (each of which can be looked at in detail by further tabs), and you can filter these by species, where they were recorded, when they were recorded, etc.. You can also, for example, look at all moth records on the database by vice-county and again search within these by species, etc. Similarly, you can download your records in alternative formats, leading to a spreadsheet file (see https://www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/downloading). I realize that you already have many records in your own files (although these might have been uploaded into iRecord by the respective CMR?), but perhaps worth thinking about for the future.
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