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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lawts" data-source="post: 1330866" data-attributes="member: 44047">Does anyone have any tips for helping to find birds in the viewfinder when digiscoping.  Often if it's a ploughed field or on the sea, or a lake and there are no obvious features, I can be ages trying to find the bird, only for it to have moved by the time I might have been in the right place - e.g. where a duck keeps diving.  I seem to totally misjudge distance.I find in desperation I ditch my bracket, use the scope as I would when just looking through it, which always seems more successful for some reason, and then use the camera hand held with still usually an unsatisfactory outcome.At the same time I'm always amazed at how the big lens guys seem to lock on to a bird immediately, whereas I'm still searching round with my scope.Thanks.</blockquote>