Vesper Sparrow and others

October is a great Birding month particularly for Sparrow's, so I visited one of my favorite Digiscoping locations in Warren county Glen Hurst Meadows , you don't really have to go far once you arrived you can just hang in the parking area and be greeted by a Vesper, Savannah , White Crowns and many others from the comfort of your car.

                                         

One word of caution this is a hunted area so check out the local regulations what days are the within the season , but I would suggest going on the off times, usually Thursday is the best day voiding Hunter and Birding traffic

A tale of Three Warblers

The Migration was on big time last night after that Tropical System headed into the neighborhood dropping about 8 inches of Rain on Friday .
Overpeck was alive with Passerines on this clear October morning, although I thought it was going to be dissapointing for Digiscoping considering the Warblers seemed to be on high octane caffeine.,but I did find a few subjects that manged to stay still for a few seconds.

                                                          Magnolia Warbler

                       
                                                     Black Throated Blue Warbler Fall Female
                                     

                                         
                                                                       Palm Warbler

                 
Also I did experiment with my F stop on the S90 on the Palm Warblers, the first capture was at 3.2 with a 1/1000th of a sec.  On the second I wanted to widen my depth of field so, I opened it to about 5.0 which gave me a 1/400th of a sec which brightened the Bird up a bit , I think if I had the F stop at 4.0 that would have been ideal, by the time I had that thought the Palm was done with my session till another time.

Lincoln's Sparrow selective perch

It is usually a good idea when trying  to gain a capture with a skulker such as these Lincoln's Sparrows, is to set up a selective perch or two for good composition.
I was surprised that they found the perch I placed up appealing, which made it a lot easier to grab a few captures.
The lighting was OK it was a bit early in the morning, I had the ISO set at 100 and had about a 1/100th shutter speed which gave me a few blurry shots to weed through but I did gain a few keepers like these.

The Meadowlands Birding festival

On Sept 11th I had a table with my Digscoping  equipment and a  Kowa Optics information display to promote my Digiscoping workshop for Sunday at the  Meadowland s Birding festival, along my side was the American Birding Association, Wild Birds Unlimited ,The Hackensack River keeper, all a great bunch of folks supporting a great conservation effort.

Before the festival I went down to Mill Creek Marsh to take advantage of the great migration that came through including Shore Birds,and a great variety of Warblers which gave me some great photo opportunitys.

                                                   American Golden Plover

                            
                                                               Palm  Warbler

                                     

                                                              Yellow Warblers

                                         
                                                                Snowy Egrets
 

                                            
            Great day with wonderful variety what more can you ask for on a early September Day.

Working with Black and Blues and other dark colors

Previously I posted how to work with whites , now I would like to display the other end of the spectrum with a Common Grackle, I shot  in very low light conditions I even bumped up the ISO to about 200 , I was totally amazed that the noise level was at a minimum .

I still retained the detail with a shutter speed at about 1/20th of a second.

Kowa Prototype Telephoto lens

I was quite amazed when Paul Hackett sent me this link , I think this Lens will be an innovated turn into Digiscoping .
Paul mentioned that he tried this lens coupled with a Nikon D300 and he was truly impressed with virtually no Chromatic aberration in sight, will this piece of glass lure me away from my trusty 883/884 well maybe an addition to my Digiscoping arsenal , It will be welcomed with open arms!


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