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Tuesday, March 09, 2010Digiscoping rare birdsNow is the time to pack up that birding spotting scope and tripod and head to the marsh, assuming your local marsh has at least some open water. Doesn’t take much open water, either, as migrating birds in the spring tend to push the envelope a bit in their haste to get to their breeding grounds. Indeed, spring is the time of year to see that truly rare bird in your spotting scope and add it to your life list. Looking back, through all of my years of birding, I recorded more rare birds in the spring than all other times of the year put together. Unfortunately, I have little in the way of pics to prove it, since I was birding many, many years before there was even such a word as digiscoping (holding any small digital camera over the eyepiece of a spotting scope to take a pic, such as a Canon Powershot) or digital cameras, for that matter. Granted, I did a lot of bird photography, but the equipment we used for bird photography back in the film days was much more of an investment in time and equipment than the equipment used in digiscoping and, naturally, when a rare bird appeared, I was not set up with the camera. No excuse for that, anymore, thanks to digiscoping. When a bird appears that begs to be photographed, I just grab my point and shoot digital camera, hold it over the eyepiece of my spotting scope and fire, away. I always carry a small digital point and shoot camera when I head to the marsh, now. If only those rare birds I have seen would all just come back … Comments: |
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