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Photography for identification purpose.
Photo: full-frame digiscoped, aperture F13, shutter speed 1/1250sec, ISO 2200, crop 25%, Exposure comp. +1,5.
Conditions: photo taken with backlight, bird was active, stayed short on each reedmace, estimated distance 20 meter, sunny, cold, winter weather.
Photography for identification purpose.
Photo: full-frame digiscoped, aperture F13, shutter speed 1/1250sec, ISO 2500, crop 25%, Exposure comp. +1,5.
Conditions: photo taken with backlight, bird was active, stayed short on each reedmace, estimated distance 20 meter, sunny, cold, winter weather.
My first dabble into high speed action, Kingfisher emerging from the water, not easy and having to guess the manual focusing, this is a videograb at 8mp and set at 30 fps in camera settings
Kowa 884 scope, 25-60 zoom eyepiece, Panasonic GH4 camera, 20m f1.7 lens, Paul Sayegh DIGIDAPTER
Digiscoped Red Kite, Stokenchurch Oxon, 11th April 2015
Manual focus, tracked bird as it flew down, Kowa 884 scope, 25-60 zoomeyepiece set on 25X, Panasonic GH4 Camera & 20mm f1.7 lens, connected with Paul Sayegh DIGIDAPTER
I was photographing Wood Ducks from my blind on the edge of our backyard swamp when I saw some large bubbles. As I watched to see what had caused them, a gorgeous drake Hooded Merganser surfaced in that spot. He was so close I was afraid that my scope wouldn't be able to focus on him. I...
This Cuckoo was hunting caterpillars from posts at Druiridge Bay in Northumberland in August.
I managed to get some great digiscoped shots using my Swarovski 80HD and my trusty old Nikon Coolpix P5100.
Red-winged Blackbird. Taken by digiscoping using a Nikon Coolpix p6000 camera, the Celestron Regal 100 F-ED spotting scope, and a Baader Hyperion 17mm eyepiece.
.... then more goslings... with dad bringing up the rear (there wasn't room for mum in the first picture).
I counted 18 goslings - but there could well have been more. Presumably they'd pinched some from another clutch.
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The Senegal Coucal is widely distributed across West Africa south of the Sahara, and is very common in Liberia's coastal savannah habitat.
Last year, my wife and I were in Liberia for 6 weeks during the wet season. This coucal stopped on a leafless stem in an abandoned garden, just long enough...
The Mourning Dove is common all across the United States and southern Canada. At this time of year (July) here in central Colorado, numerous Mourning Doves have fledged and can be seen on power lines along the roads. I came across this one resting quietly, but watchfully, in the partial shade of...
After the Sandpiper and Wagtail, we moved further down Loch Sween and stopped to look back at Castle Sween. While I was looking around and taking pics of the castle my sister called me and said "What's that, it's not a Gannet is it?".
Now the day before she said how impressed she'd...