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    Rock Pipit ?

    Thanks all for the Pipit masterclass and compliments Karl, digiscoped with an Olympus 5060 Here is another............Who do you think your pointing that thing at ?........
  2. Ian B

    Rock Pipit ?

    Caught this Pipit posing rather nicely on a wall on Holy Island a couple of weeks ago. At the time I put it down as a Meadow Pipit but now having looked at the photo the dark legs are leading me to Rock Pipit. Any thoughts much appreciated Ian B
  3. Rock Pipit

    Rock Pipit

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  4. Ian B

    Northumberland

    I met 2 very helpful birders at Bamburgh other than that as you say I had the place to myself, unbelievably I didn't see a single other bider on Holy Island even on the causeway which was absolutely heaving with birds. Ian
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    Northumberland

    Had a fantastic day out yesterday on the Northumberland coast, Bamburgh and Holy Island. I had not visited this coast for many years and had forgotten just how stunning it is. If anyone knows a better spot for winter birding I sure would like to hear of it. So many birds I didn't know where...
  6. Ian B

    Airlines and Tripods

    Thanks for all your replies. I am going to try to take the pod in hand I'll let you know how I get on ! Ian
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    Airlines and Tripods

    Does anyone have any recent experience of Airlines views on taking scopes and tripods on as hand baggage ? I am travelling on a domestic BA flight later this week and really dont want to have to check my cf tripod into the hold only for it to reappear a shattered mess ! Thanks Ian
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    Hide Clamps for Digiscoping?

    Chris I find my hide clamp fine, although it is quite a solid clamp. The only problem I do find, and this equally applies to a tripod in a hide, is what I suppose could be best described as "hide bounce" which can cause camera shake. Ian
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    Bird species spotted in a short period

    Jax Sounds like you had a great morning. Whereabouts on Pagham Harbour were you ? Ian
  10. Ian B

    video editing program wanted but.......

    Bill I edit dv on a P3 500mhz machine, it works fine. But I do have a much bigger hard disk of 200 GB. Firewire is an absolute must, USB even USB 2.0 will drop frames. I don't know what others have found on here but I would seriously caution against Pinnacle Studio 9.0 as it is very buggy...
  11. Ian B

    Your thoughts appreciated

    Perry Thanks, presumably you can't use the DCB with the stay on case ? Ian
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    Your thoughts appreciated

    Andy, thanks Yes I am looking at a bracket type. The Oly 5060 is a fairly chunky piece of kit and I would really be concerned about the weight "hanging" on the scope eyepiece. Also from what I've read on here the tube type adapters are quite time consuming to fit whereas with the bracket type...
  13. Ian B

    Your thoughts appreciated

    Fairly new to birding and digiscoping so please be gentle with me ! I would like to try and link up my Swarovski ATS 80 with my Olympus 5060. After extensive research a couple of adapters appear to offer possible solutions. Firstly there is Swarovskis own adapter the DCB, looks tidy but how...
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