My first digiscoping shot. A snowy owl that the entire
Bill of the Birds: August 2006
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Friday, August 04, 2006
My Digiscoping Set-Up
My first digiscoping shot. A snowy owl that the entire
BWD
staff got to see along the Ohio River in WV in 1999.
I took my first digiscoping shot in 1999. The subject was a snowy owl in winter along some railroad tracks in West Virginia. I held the camera (an early Nikon CoolPix) up to the lens of my spotting scope (a Swarovski AT 80 HD, angled) and snapped away. I liked the results but little did I know I had gotten
extremely
lucky. A still, cooperative bird, easy to find in the scope, up close, no heat haze, perfect light...
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