Outdoor sketching practice

Today I went out with the goal of coming to terms with sketching outdoors. Each previous time I have tried I always ended up with an empty sheet of paper. Today I broke my barrier and sketched some Starlings feeding in the grass. All done in pencil, sketching moving objects such as birds is difficult. I remember hearing from a YouTube video by John Muir Laws that your aim should be to obtain a visual record of the subject in motion, this usually can only be visually store in your mind for a few seconds but that with practice you can retain more information. I managed to do this now, not with perfect results but it was very positive.