About this journal
A short note on who is behind this publication, what we are trying to do here, and how to get in touch if any of it is useful to you.
Field Notes is a small journal about paying attention. We write about the night sky, the fungal floor, the spring bird flood, and the slow theater of a planted aquarium — the four hobbies where amateurs still make real observations that matter.
Everything here starts as a paper notebook entry: date, location, figure number, and what actually happened. The website keeps that discipline. Nothing is published that wasn't first observed, and every figure is numbered in the order it was recorded, not the order it flatters.
The shop exists to fund the printing. We sell the tools we actually carry — red-light headlamps, dot-grid journals, laminated charts — and nothing we don't. If an item is listed, at least two of our editors have worn one out.
We publish one dispatch per new moon, thirteen a year. Comments are closed; letters are read. Write to [email protected] — observations, corrections, and better figure captions all welcome.