Photo at the top: Sandwich Tern (Grote Stern) feeding juvenile.
Intro
Real birders tend to carry binoculars, a scope and a Bird Guide. They want to make absolutely sure about what they see. Some day it might be a “new species“! Some birders make use of “digiscoping” in our experience a mixed blessing:
- undeniably exceptional ‘reach” (bereik)
- time consuming manual focussing
- somewhat clumsy awkward handling of your equipment.
- infact sometimes the only solution if birds ar really far away!
- even action photography is possible!
Equipment required
- high quality telescope
- high quality digicompact
- adapter connecting scope and digicompace (this element is crucial!)
- preferably a remote control avoidibg vibrations most telescopes do noet suppor vibration reduction)
- tripod and tripod head (some scopers manage to shoot pictures handheld),
- skill (developed over time)
- patience (ideally also of the bird(s) being photographed).
