While gulls are not our strong suit (although we’ve added to our arsenal to improve this handicap), who doesn’t love the antics of gulls? This Ring-billed Gull was digiscoped with our Swarovski 80 HD spotting scope along the master of all rivers, the Mississippi.
Category: Photography
Review of Swarovski 80 HD Spotting Scope
Swarovski Optik is well-known for high quality birding optics and their High Definition (HD) spotting scopes are at the top of the list for most birders. Our scope of choice is the STS 80 HD version with the Swarovski 20-60x zoom eyepiece.
Phriday Photo – Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing – digiscoped with Swarovski 80 HD Spotting Scope
Phriday Photo – White-crowned Sparrow (with a Brown Crown)
The White-crowned Sparrows with brown crowns (aka, 1st year birds), always seem to be a bit more bold than those with the sharp white and black crowns. Digiscoped with our sweet Swarovski 80 HD spotting scope and “old reliable” the Canon Rebel XTi.
Screeing Red-tailed Hawk [Skywatch Friday]
This week’s Skywatch is a Red-tailed Hawk that was busy making his presence known. Gotta love their screeeeee!! Check out more Skywatch photos!
Surf Scoter – Photo Lifelist #242
This weekend we had the opportunity to test out Birdfreak’s work camera, a Canon EOS 50D DSLR. This camera has a lot of potential and we will try to give it a full review after using it a bit while longer. In short, the 50D shoots a bit over 6 frames a second and has
Phriday Photo – Mastering the Bins
One of the littlest Birdfreakians is mastering using bins. Finding and focusing on the birds takes practice and it is worth the effort!
Skywatch Friday – October Sky
On our Big Sit, we had lots of time to sit and enjoy the scenery. The sky was gorgeous and changing throughout the day. See other great photos of the sky at Skywatch.
