Digiscoping

Digiscoping is the technique of taking photographs with a digital camera attached to a spotting scope. Here you can see some of the pictures I have taken using this technique. Unless noted, all of these pictures were taken with a Nikon CoolPix (995 or 4500) through a Pentax PF80-ED spotting scope using a William Optics DCL 28mm eyepiece. Two other pieces of equipment essential for crisp images are a sturdy tripod and a remote shutter release. Birds are listed in taxonomic order.

Recently, I have purchased a Canon EOS-20D and a Canon 400mm lens. This has now become my primary equipment for photographing birds.

 

  Least Grebe Mourning Dove
Pied-billed Grebe Inca Dove
Brown Pelican Monk Parakeet
Double-crested Cormorant   Black-hooded Parakeet
Neotropic Cormorant   Budgerigar
Anhinga   Greater Roadrunner
Great Blue Heron   Snowy Owl
Great Egret   Great Gray Owl
Snowy Egret Northern Hawk Owl
  Little Blue Heron   Eastern Screech-Owl
Tricolored Heron Lesser Nighthawk
Reddish Egret   Elegant Trogon
Green Heron   Ringed Kingfisher
  Black-crowned Night-Heron   Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Red-bellied Woodpecker
Glossy Ibis Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Wood Stork White-breasted Nuthatch
Roseate Spoonbill Least Flycatcher
Greater White-fronted Goose Vermillion Flycatcher
  Snow Goose Great Crested Flycatcher
  Ross's Goose   Great Kiskadee
  Canada Goose   Rose-throated Becard
Cackling Goose   Loggerhead Shrike
  Mallard   Gray Jay
  Muscovy Duck   Green Jay
Blue-winged Teal   Brown Jay
Black Vulture   American Crow
Turkey Vulture Black-crested Titmouse
Osprey Cactus Wren
White-tailed Kite Bewick's Wren
Bald Eagle Eastern Bluebird
  Sharp-shinned Hawk   White-throated Robin
Harris's Hawk American Robin
Gray Hawk Northern Mockingbird
Red-tailed Hawk Brown Thrasher
Crested Caracara Long-billed Thrasher
Eurasian Kestrel American Pipit
Red-footed Falcon   Cedar Waxwing
Aplomado Falcon White-eyed Vireo
  American Coot   Wilson's Warbler
  Sora   Golden-crowned Warbler
Limpkin   Orange-crowned Warbler
Purple Gallinule Northern Cardinal
Common Moorhen   Pyrrhuloxia
Sandhill Crane Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Black-bellied Plover Painted Bunting
American Golden-Plover Eastern Towhee
Piping Plover Bachman's Sparrow
Black-necked Stilt Clay-colored Sparrow
Willet   Lark Sparrow
Spotted Sandpiper Black-throated Sparrow
Long-billed Curlew   Savannah Sparrow
Ruddy Turnstone Fox Sparrow
Sanderling Lincoln's Sparrow
Least Sandpiper White-throated Sparrow
Wilson's Snipe Lapland Longspur
Laughing Gull   Red-winged Blackbird
Ring-billed Gull   Boat-tailed Grackle
Royal Tern Great-tailed Grackle
Sandwich Tern   Orchard Oriole
Least Tern Hooded Oriole
Black Skimmer   Altamira Oriole
Red-billed Pigeon   Audubon's Oriole
Eurasian Collared-Dove   Purple Finch
  White-winged Crossbill
  Horned Lark
    Hoary Redpoll
  Lesser Goldfinch
     
     
     
     
    Created by: Jody Hildreth
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Revised: October 04, 2005 .