You could keep a list of birds you see at any particular habitat or locale where you spend time - not just "home." Only keep them separate to help maintain awareness of habitat.

I used to work just 4 long blocks from where I lived. I walked to work. I never saw a rock pigeon, house sparrow or starling from my yard, but saw them every day from either my office window or the fire escape of my office.

I now have a 40 mile one way commute - all two lane roads through farm country. It is rare that I do not see a Great Blue Heron winging its way between farm ponds, or a wedge of Canada Geese, or a couple of mallards, or, in spring, red-winged blackbirds among the cat-tails around farm ponds. In the fall harvested grain and cornfields will be full of Canada Geese gleaning what they can. I never hear a whippoorwill or poor=will or other goshawk here. When I lived just 20 miles north in a travel trailer on a 250 acre farm, they would drive me crazy at night with their loud and persistent calls. Indigo Buntings were common there, as were fox sparrows, rufus-sided towhees, brown thrashers. I occasionally see some of those species here in my yard, but not often.   Also saw a larger variety of hawks. Here I see only the common Red-tailed and Sharp-shinned Hawks. Once saw a large flock of Cedar Waxwings migrating swoop down and quickly strip a cedar of it's blue berries, then take to the skies again - only time in my life I have seen that species.

If I drive 1 mile north or south I land in the parking lot of the shopping centers where I do most of my grocery shopping. There will be house sparrows and rock pigeons at both places, as well, in season, purple martins, killdeer, and after a coastal storm, seagulls. It will be nothing but a fluke if ever I see any them ib my yard or on my feeders.

Habitat.