Interesting thread!
When I’m out running, I always take
- my iPhone SE (for GPS tracking, photos, and audio recordings)
- my compact 8X25 monocular (for bird ID and far-off photos through iPhone)
- a small macro lens for my iPhone (actually, I use the lens from my first camera, for both sentimental reasons and it’s higher quality that the cheap plastic clip-ons)
- a plastic vial for collecting insects (just in case)
- a plastic bag for collecting plants (just in case).
- a battery pack (my iPhone’s battery is getting old and I’m out for several hours at a time)
When I’m biking, I’ve also got my bluetooth microphone (a Sony ECMAW4 Wireless Microphone) which I clip onto my helmet so I can make observations (geotagged, timestamped audio notes) while riding. I use a Bic ballpoint pen as a scale for all my roadkill photos (one day I should swap it out with a short ruler but the pen does the job).
If there’s a chance of rain (or if it is raining), I have a clear plastic bag so I can keep using my iPhone in any weather. Taking photos with an iPhone is a bag in the rain doesn’t work well but I can continue to make audio notes of everything I’m seeing and hearing.
When I’m out walking, I take my DSLR kit with a 28 mm lens, 90 mm macro lens with 50 mm extension tubes, and a 300 mm lens. And plenty of vials and plastic bags. If it’s available, I take my wife’s Garmin GPSMAP64 for more accurate GPS tracking. Otherwise that gets done by my iPhone.
But no chopsticks. I’d not thought of chopsticks!