One of us has loved birds her whole life. The other needed a reason to go outside.
Turns out "let's go photograph birds" is a pretty good reason. Bean drags Lemon out whenever life allows, and Lemon drags Bean away from every interesting stick on the ground. It's a balanced system.
We're not professionals — just two people with good cameras, a shared love of early mornings, and an ongoing disagreement about whether picking up sticks counts as "connecting with nature" or "littering in reverse."
These are our field notes. Every feather counts. 📓
📓 Bean's Kit
📓 Lemon's Kit
Between a memory card and a tidy grid of thumbnails lives a whole lot of renaming, tiling, and uploading — the part of birding nobody writes poetry about. Beantools handles that pipeline — a free, open-source helper we made for this very site.
So yes, the sticks still get debated by hand. The filenames? Mercifully not.
Open source Beantools on GitHub →