digiscoping

Pitch black with a torch and digiscoping equipment in the middle of a field in Goa....does it get any better?

South American tanager are often colourful. This one is mainly black, but at close ranger shows nice orange and yellow patches. Valry http://www.valeryschollaert.com/index.php?lang=english

Almost every morning during my stay in Amazonian Brazil, I was awaked by this guy. They are very noisy from 5:30 to 6 AM but usually silent afterward. Despite being very common, seeing one is really difficult! Eventually, one came nearby me while I was birding the gardens of the lodge, around...

The Christmas present of my fiance while we were in Brazil for bird teaching project was to find this wonderful raptor. It didn't move for four minutes perching silently on a branch then disappeared inside the dense primary forest. We didn't see that species anymore for the rest of our five...

This bird is one of the few that can be photographed easily inside the primary forest in Amazonia. It stays long periods on the same branch, or catching insects in a flycatcher-like fashion. Valry http://www.valeryschollaert.com/index.php?lang=english

In a bird party, in the gardens of an Amazonian Lodge in Brazil this little Spotted Tanager stayed 4-5 seconds in my telescope, enough to get this photo. I added this one in the Opus: a new species in it! I will look in my other Brazilian photos and hope to help again this wonderful idea...

There is a power pole in my yard which is a popular perching post for some local birds, including a Merlin, Falco columbarius, which uses the pole as a feeding platform at times. This morning was one such time. Photo taken with a Nikon D50, Nikon Fieldscope III, and a Nikon FSA-L1 Adapter to...

A friend I always visit when in Guayaquil-Ecuador. For the last 4 years perching in the same spot. It seems he now has a family..

Rainy weekend in Atlanta, but this fellow gave me good views for few minutes.

Yellow-shafted, male

Some years they are not around here in S-spain, but the last two years I see them often. Like this thirsty man.

Our winter blackcap around the pound, there is also a female. Still strying to get them on one photo