Field Notes Journal

Reference

Booklets

Compiled reports presented as booklet-style publications, bringing together observations and analyses in a more structured, long-form format.

Area Data Reference
Wildlife A Year In the Life of Abingdon —
Microscopy Microscopy Programme —
Travel Tanzania, 2022 - Field Notes from a Long-Awaited Journey —
Wildlife UK Bat Emergence Times and Call Frequency Reference —

Tools

The tools used to collect, organise, and present these records are available as open source, and can be adapted for your own purposes.

Tool Description
ADS-B BaseStation Reader ADS-B tracking tool for live aircraft monitoring
Flight Recorder Used to capture and analyse aircraft observations
Nature Recorder Used to log wildlife sightings and build long-term natural history records
Plate Library Used to maintain a catalogue of photomicrographic plates and investigations
Raspberry Pi Weather Station A small environmental monitoring system that records local weather conditions
Spectrogram Viewer Command-line tool for analysing bat recordings, with noise reduction, viewers, and pulse-level call analysis

Reference Data

These datasets support the wildlife, aircraft, and weather reports published elsewhere on the site. Some can be explored online, while others are available as downloadable SQLite databases used to generate the analyses.

Databases

Area Data Reference
Aircraft Flight Recorder SQLite database FN-AC-DATA
Wildlife Nature Recorder SQLite database FN-NR-DATA
Microscopy Plate library database FN-MICRO-DATA
Weather RPi-Weather Station SQLite database FN-WE-DATA

Reference Tables

Area Data Reference
Aircraft Airport Details —
Wildlife Species Details —
Wildlife UK Bat Emergence Times Calculator —
Wildlife UK Bat Emergence Times and Call Frequency Reference —
Wildlife Wildlife Location Details —

These datasets form part of the underlying data used to generate the reports and visualisations published throughout the site.

Citing the Source Databases

You are welcome to reuse or reproduce the downloadable SQLite databases listed on this page under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence. Please provide appropriate attribution, including a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. A suggested citation is provided below. The other reference data listed here are supporting reference material and are not given separate dataset citations.

Walker, David. Flight Recorder SQLite database. Field Notes Journal. ID FN-AC-DATA. Version 2026.04.27. https://davidwalker.uk/assets/downloads/flightrecorder.db.gz

Dataset FN-AC-DATA Author David Walker Publisher Field Notes Journal Version 2026.04.27
Reference: Walker, David. Flight Recorder SQLite database. Field Notes Journal. ID FN-AC-DATA. Version 2026.04.27.
BibTeX 
@dataset{fn_ac_data,
  author = {Walker, David},
  title = {Flight Recorder SQLite database},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Field Notes Journal},
  version = {2026.04.27},
  url = {https://davidwalker.uk/assets/downloads/flightrecorder.db.gz}
}

Walker, David. Plate library database. Field Notes Journal. ID FN-MICRO-DATA. Version 2026.04.27. https://davidwalker.uk/assets/downloads/plate_library.db.gz

Dataset FN-MICRO-DATA Author David Walker Publisher Field Notes Journal Version 2026.04.27
Reference: Walker, David. Plate library database. Field Notes Journal. ID FN-MICRO-DATA. Version 2026.04.27.
BibTeX 
@dataset{fn_micro_data,
  author = {Walker, David},
  title = {Plate library database},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Field Notes Journal},
  version = {2026.04.27},
  url = {https://davidwalker.uk/assets/downloads/plate_library.db.gz}
}

Walker, David. RPi-Weather Station SQLite database. Field Notes Journal. ID FN-WE-DATA. Version 2026.04.27. https://davidwalker.uk/assets/downloads/weather.db.gz

Dataset FN-WE-DATA Author David Walker Publisher Field Notes Journal Version 2026.04.27
Reference: Walker, David. RPi-Weather Station SQLite database. Field Notes Journal. ID FN-WE-DATA. Version 2026.04.27.
BibTeX 
@dataset{fn_we_data,
  author = {Walker, David},
  title = {RPi-Weather Station SQLite database},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Field Notes Journal},
  version = {2026.04.27},
  url = {https://davidwalker.uk/assets/downloads/weather.db.gz}
}

Walker, David. Nature Recorder SQLite database. Field Notes Journal. ID FN-NR-DATA. Version 2026.04.27. https://davidwalker.uk/assets/downloads/naturerecorder.db.gz

Dataset FN-NR-DATA Author David Walker Publisher Field Notes Journal Version 2026.04.27
Reference: Walker, David. Nature Recorder SQLite database. Field Notes Journal. ID FN-NR-DATA. Version 2026.04.27.
BibTeX 
@dataset{fn_nr_data,
  author = {Walker, David},
  title = {Nature Recorder SQLite database},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Field Notes Journal},
  version = {2026.04.27},
  url = {https://davidwalker.uk/assets/downloads/naturerecorder.db.gz}
}