American Oystercatchers Digiscoped at South Beach on the Cape of Massachusetts

by The Birdfreak Team on August 9, 2008

in Digiscoping

After testing out a Swarovski digiscoping* setup for the first time, I was able to put my newly learned skill to the test on the cape of Massachusetts at South Beach.

One of my first victims was a roving gang of American Oystercatchers. Needless to say, I was pretty happy with the results.

Two adults and a juvenile. If you look closely, one of the adults is banded “yellow #60″
American Oystercatchers

American Oystercatchers

This wasn’t the best shot, but the oystercatcher had been digging in his ear pretty fierce and seemed fairly happy about it
American Oystercatcher

*Digiscoping is when you take a camera and connect it with a spotting scope to use as a super telephoto lens. I was using an angled HD scope with the Birdfreak Canon XTi DSLR.

    

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1 Melissa Gold August 9, 2008 at 8:47 am

Awesome pictures! :)
Not digiscoping yet, but hopefully soon!

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