Comments on: New Birding iPhone App [BirdsEye]

By: mon@rch

mon@rch — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:41:35 +0000

Michele, I sent you a personal email about my thoughts but figured I should respond for everyone else to see. Not having people use eBird is a big downer for this application but I do like it very much and you can be sure we used it at every city that I visited in Texas (and down to Texas). I did get iBird for xmas from the kids and after using birdseye . . . I know I would use this app more than iBird due to the data changes where you go with this app and not with iBird. But my review of iBird is for another post. Can’t comment on the iTouch features but with the iPhone it is VERY handy as long as users use eBird. Thanks for everyone’s comments here!

By: Michele Franz

Michele Franz — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:20:00 +0000

Thanks for an informative post, Tom!
Just got an Ipod Touch and have been holding off on purchasing the BirdsEye app for the reasons you stated even now after a year. I’m not sure if its been updated since then but several reviewers have also complained about the timeliness of the reporting of sightings which isn’t the developers fault of course. It’s been a year now, what do you think? Are you using it? Did you use it in Texas?
Because the Touch doesn’t have GPS I’m also leery of it’s usefulness in anything but urban settings crawling with WiFi.
Thanks again-
Michele

By: Marlene Mudge

Marlene Mudge — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:53:47 +0000

Beautiful pictures, as usual. One look and you can see why people call them “ruffled” grouse!

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:11:19 +0000

Your catbird picture is one of my favorites. I’m happy to see it again.

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:16:08 +0000

Great review Tom and I’m pleased to see that the developer responded here also. Shows me they care about their app and customers.