About Nature Watcher

Nature Watcher is a field journal for wildlife sightings. It is built around one idea: the note you make in the moment is not the note you want six months later. So instead of a photo and a caption, each entry keeps the things that let you compare one visit with the next — what you saw, how many, what stage of life it was at, and how you knew it was there at all.

That last part is the field the app really exists for. Seen, heard, tracks and sign, camera trap, net or trap are recorded separately, because they are genuinely different claims. A tawny owl heard calling at midnight and a tawny owl actually seen are not the same record, and a set of deer slots in wet ground is a third thing again. Most apps flatten all three into "spotted". This one does not.

Each sighting can carry a common name and a scientific name, a taxonomic family, a count, life stage from egg through larva and juvenile to adult or in flower, sex, the date and time, a place name with GPS if you want it, colours, and free notes. Nothing is compulsory beyond the name — an entry that says only "Goldfinch, canal, this morning" is a perfectly good entry.

You can use it without an account. In that mode your sightings never leave the browser tab — nothing is sent anywhere, and they are gone when you close it, which is fine for trying it out on a walk. Signing in keeps a permanent journal instead: those entries are stored in Google Firestore against your account, readable by you and not by other users.

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