Jekyll plugin for bird watchers

This plugin allows you to attach a list of birds to each blog post. These lists will be compiled to provide a lifelist - a list of all the birds ever seen - and a page for each bird with a list of sightings.

Assuming you have already installed Jekyll:

1. Place birdlist.rb in your _plugins folder (if you don't) have one, create it in the root folder of your site.
2. Add birdpage.html to your _layouts folder.
3. Add the lifelist folder and index.html to the root of your project.
4. Either replace your post layout (_layouts/post.html) with the one in this repository, or add the code below to your own post.html

Add the following variables to the YAML front-matter of your blog posts. Examples are provided in the two sample posts in the repository.

This is the list of birds that you wish to record for this post. It can be in a bulleted list or comma separated format.

birds:
  - Carrion crow
  - Jackdaw
  - Magpie
  - Common Buzzard

or

birds: [Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Magpie, Common Buzzard]

You can specify a location for each post; this will appear in the list of sightings on each bird page.

location: Mirkwood

• this is completely optional.
• it's freeform, you will have to decide for yourself how granular to be.
• you can only specify one location per post; if your day's birding takes in multiple locations I can only suggest splitting it into multiple posts?
• in the future I may develop the location idea further, to enable garden, patch, county, state and country lists.