Digiscoping Today - week 9

It is Saturday again so Welcome to the 9th installment of Digiscoping Today!

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Last week we had:

1. Corey of 10,000 birds added some great shots of an Arctic Tern in Cupsogue beach county park - a great find for New York!

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Dale Forbes

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Digiscoping Today - week 8

It is Saturday again so Welcome to the 8th installment of Digiscoping Today!

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Last week we had:

1. I added a link to a post on digibinning/how to take photos with binoculars (a video made on the steppes of Kazakhstan), and
2. Corey of 10,000 birds added some great shots of the beautiful pink Mongolian Finches from our recent Swarovski Optik digiscoping trip to Kazakhstan.

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Dale Forbes

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Digiscoping Today - week 7

It is Saturday again so Welcome to the 7th installment of Digiscoping Today!

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Last week we had:

1. I have added a link to some digiscoped wallcreeper photos, and
2. Corey of 10,000 birds has some wonderful Himalayan Rubythroat images from our recent Swarovski Optik digiscoping trip to Kazakhstan.

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Dale Forbes

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Digiscoping Today - week 6

It is Saturday again so Welcome to the 6th installment of Digiscoping Today!

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So far this week:

1. I have added a link to some digiscoped wallcreeper photos, and
2. Corey of 10,000 birds has some wonderful Himalayan Rubythroat images from our recent Swarovski Optik digiscoping trip to Kazakhstan.

Last week we had a great selection of various Yellow Wagtail races by Corey (10,000birds.com),
and some in-flight photos of a Montagues Harrier.






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Dale Forbes

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Digiscoping Today - week 5

Welcome to the 5th installment of Digiscoping Today!

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Digiscoping Today - week 4

Welcome to the fourth installment of Digiscoping Today!

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Digiscoping Today - week 3

Welcome to the third installment of Digiscoping Today!

The idea behind it is to share my (and probably your) passion for digiscoping and nature. Nature gives us so much joy in so many ways and digiscoping - as with other forms of photography - gives us a reason to be outdoors.

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1. Kevin Bolton of Jersey Digiscoping has been after American wood warbler photos lately and has posted one of that series: a Prairie Warbler Dendroica discolor.

2. Sharon aka BirdChick has posted some cool digiscoped photos and video of a steppe eagle and a family of "barking" marmots (also known as steppe eagle food) live in action.

3. Dale Forbes (yes, that is me) has the first part of his travelogue to Kazakhstan, posted below. Isn't it weird to talk about oneself in the third person?

4. Nancy Castillo has a post called "Gorgeous evening Grosbeak". The title does not lie.

5. Corey of 10000birds has added a "Soul-satisfying Scarlet". Damn, this man sure has a way with creating intriguing titles. The posts starts: "Sometimes a species just stops you in your tracks. So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, ...". As always, Corey's post is filled with eye-candy and words to match.

6. Jason (Horukuru) has just posted the programme for a photography workshop to be held in Rainforest Discovery Centre, Sepilok, Sandakan. If you are in the area, then you don't want to miss Jason's presentation on digiscoping and birding equipment in the afternoon of 21 June 2009. He also has a post on his setup and some new digiscoped photos here.

7. Tom Cuffe of Galway Bird photos and more has posted a digiscoped Sedge Warbler - always hard to get.

8. Jerry Jourdan of Jerry's Birding/Digiscoping Blog has some nice digiscoped photos of bright wood warblers, and a story of a wonderful morning's birding in Crane Creek.


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Digiscoping Today - week 2

Welcome to the second installment of Digiscoping Today!

The idea behind it is to share my (and probably your) passion for digiscoping and nature. Nature gives us so much joy in so many ways and digiscoping - as with other forms of photography - gives us a reason to be outdoors.

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I have just gotten back from Kazakhstan (in the last few minutes) and have huge numbers of really cool photos and videos so will be posting them over the next few weeks.

This afternoon we are off to Po Delta (northeast Italy) for a few days, so I might not be able to post for the next few days.

1. Corey of 10000birds has posted a link to some photos from a recent trip to Honduras. It is well worth scrolling down and checking out those Euphonias - they are a little bubble of yellow joy bouncing around in the tree tops!

2. Frank the Early Birder got some lovely shots of Mandarin Ducks and tells a good story too. What makes the shots all the more impressive is that they were taken using a monopod shoved in to the earth to keep the hand-held digiscoping setup steady in a fierce wind!

3. Carol of WildlifeAroundUs has some nice shots of a Caroline Chickadee in her garden. I wonder how it ended up that they were called chickadees to the west of the atlantic, and tits to the east?


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Dale Forbes

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Digiscoping Today - week 1

Welcome to the first ever Digiscoping Today installment!

The idea behind it is to share my (and probably your) passion for digiscoping and nature. Nature gives us so much joy in so many ways and digiscoping - as with other forms of photography - gives us a reason to be outdoors.

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1. Dawn has just posted a lovely pic of a Pied-billed Grebe showing off its characteristically large bill beautifully.


2. Kevin Bolton has added a link to his flickr profile, with lots of new photos that he has posted over the last few days. This one of a cardinal really stood out to me:

3. Jerry Jourdan has linked a post about digiscoping the White-faced Ibis and he has some incredible shots (and a video) to show for it!


4. Jason has a wonderful collection of mouthwatering images from Sabah Borneo Island - gaudy coloured kingfishers, great big hornbills and wild Orang Utans! I have really wanted to get to Sabah for ages. In fact, one day I will live there! (you can all be my witnesses) great birds and awesome tropical diving, what more could I ask for?


5. First videoscoping contribution comes from Can Popper; showing some nice detail on a pelican. Can has just help me choose a video camera and gave tons of great advice on how to create a videoscoping setup, so hopefully I will be able to get some videoscoping shots of my own soon.


6. Tom Cuffe of "Galway Bird photos and more" has a nice website with a wide range of bird and nature photos from Ireland. He uses both a compact camera/digiscoping setup and a classic DSLR setup for his photography. Here are some terns that he digiscoped.


7. Frank the Early Birder has added a photo of a European Starling and as Frank put it "Whilst I know this species is not so popular on the other side of the Atlantic, the Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is a regular visitor to our garden. It also has a rich repertoire of song, often incorporating imitations of other species and many other sounds such as car alarms etc."
It really is nice to be able to see and appreciate a species in its natural home environment when one has known it as a "pest" elsewhere (this also happened to me with Lantana camara).

Happy digiscoping!
Dale Forbes

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Digiscoping Today - A Weekly Blog Carnival

Digiscoping Today is a new blog carnival/meme where digiscopers can add links to recent photos. The thing is, there are so many people digiscoping out there (all over the place) that it would be nice to get together somehow.

Digiscoping Today is for:

• Showing off your great digiscoping images
• Getting advice from other photographers/digiscopers
• Whether it is your first digiscoping photo or your 10000th join in the fun!
  

Here are some general guidelines:

• Post your photos or video to a blog, flickr, youtube, etc.
  
• Add your name/blog name in the linky box
• Add a link to the specific URL of your photo/video/post
• The content or subject of the photo does not matter as long as it is not offensive. Photograph birds, bugs, mountains, clouds or the moon, as you like.
• Any photo or video counts as long is it was taken through another, external lens; a telescope, binoculars, a hand lens, whatever floats your boat.
• Please add the words "Digiscoping Today" somewhere in your title, and please paste the widget in your blog so that your post links back to the main host site.
• If you are linking to a flickr or youtube video, then please insert the linkback in the description, and make sure that the image title has the words "Digiscoping Today" in it.
• Digiscoping, videoscoping, digibinning, phonescoping, anything goes
  

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Two other carnivals you may want to participate in are:

and

you can use the same post/image for Digiscoping Today and for any other meme/carnival as long as they fulfill the requirements of all carnivals involved.

Check out www.birdfreak.com for tons of interesting birding and bird conservation stuff, Eddie also runs Bird Photography Weekly, so go ahead and have a look at some of the cool photos people are placing there

Happy digiscoping!
Dale Forbes