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    White-feathered American Crow

    Crow wing Thanks for all the input. I didn't get any flight photos except this partial wing shot as the crow flew away. It's blurry but you can clearly see his three white primaries.
  2. Mac Faxer

    White-feathered American Crow

    I spotted a white-feathered American Crow yesterday, hopped out of the car and clicked one shot before he flew off with his all-black cohorts. It appears that several of his primary feathers are pure white. Can anyone tell me the proper adjective for such a bird? Is it "melanistic" or "partial...
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    Videoscoping owls

    PJ - It looks like there's a "Manage Attachments" button under the Reply window. I hope you can figure it out; would like to see what you're getting. Cheers - Mac Faxer
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    video editing program wanted but.......

    Bird editing on a Mac Hi Bill- If your main goal is an easy-to-use video editor, get a new Mac which comes with "iMovie" installed (free). I encountered iMovie as a novice 3 years ago and started editing immediately. I now use Final Cut Express, also an Apple product. On the PC side, I'm not...
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    Videoscoping owls

    I recently made a barn owl video, shot with a Sony TRV900 camcorder (digital/miniDV) looking through a TeleVue Pronto 70mm scope with a 40mm eyepiece. I got a some vignetting at wide angle, but none when zoomed in. The power is maybe a bit too high for general birding, but great for my fixed...
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    Which Camcorder?

    Ben- I own a PC-330. I bought it for its single-frame time-lapse capabilities, which are flawless and hard to find in a camcorder. I also used it briefly to video barn owls through a telescope. This nice little camera would be better if it had 3 CCD's and didn't load tape from the bottom (remove...
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    Greetings from barn owl country

    I'm a new member - interested in exploring digiscoping possibilities with camcorders. I recently shot a 27-min. video about barn owls (see www.barnowls.com), and would like to branch out to other birds. Barn owls are very cooperative subjects. They don't mind lights at night and they raised...
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