Eagles on Thanksgiving day Jetty Hopping

Hello all ,I had a great 2 days of Digiscoping plus Kowa Telephoto 500mm shooting too.

I always wanted to include this first location in my Photography jaunts but I never got around to it ,this first run of the  Conowingo was a definite learning curve with Flight shots ,, and I did a few things correct and on the other side a few wrong but thats ok I had a blast.

It was a long three hour drive with Thanksgiving traffic at its worst on the way home which turned it into four hours ,, but as soon as I hit that stretch of 222 through Port Deposit Maryland a quaint little village and stated to see my target Bald Eagle perched along the River Bank the trip seemed well rewarded .

On Saturday I went to Barnegat Inlet and walked the Jetty and since the temps were in the upper Fifties , the Jetty was Loaded with pedestrians and spoilers of great shots of Harlequin Ducks"s  but I did manage one capture along with Purple Sandpipers Dunlin"s and Ruddy Turnstones.

Some Kowa Telephoto LensScope 500mm/5.6 captures

Today was a bit uneventful with my search for flight shots of Raptors so I had to settle for some Common Stuff with a cool dribbling shot of a Mallard enjoy.

Cape May Fall Weekend /Sandy Hook

Sorry for the late blogging folks but I have been so busy ,, but I did have I great time at the Cape May Autumn weekend with only 1 bad day of weather .
As far as equipment  I used the new Kowa Telephoto lens/scope about 50% of the time along with Point and Shoot Digiscoping, a Special thanks to Jim Danzenbaker and Ray Goeke for the great company and keeping the weekend interesting.

High points of the weekend was no doubt some great captures I got of the Rufous Hummingbird at the Goshen Audubon center.

This was a Bird I have not seen since the early 80"s late 70"s in Southern California ,,this Rufous was Digiscoped with the Kowa 884/30wide eyepiece / CanonS90.

There was plenty of Yellowrumps around to keep my Warbler Digiscoping juices going .

Also a good # of Blackpolls in the area this was my first Digiscoped capture of one.

Next I had a go with the Kowa 500/5.6 Lens with the NikonD7000 combo on some flight shots and sitting Gulls and Shorebirds. Like these Black Skimmers.

Sanderlings also provided some great captures as you can see the lighting was getting better I got some nice shutter speeds with the 500 5.6.

This Lesser Black Backed Gull was a first for me to Photo a fine adult Bird no mistaking this guy

Golden Crowned Kinglets along Blackpoll Warblers gave me some great views with the Kowa 500/5.6

The Hawk flight was great at the Cape but with the variety of Birds I had option anxiety but I did manage some Sharp Shinned Hawk flight shots with the Kowa Lens

 Now onto Sandy Hook ,,my intentions for the trip was to find a Harris's Sparrow but my time consuming Eastern Bluebird captures I think spoiled that deal O well 1 lifer lost is not to bad I did manage some nice Swamp Sparrow, Eastern Bluebirds and White Throat Sparrows wit the Kowa 884 / 30wide Eyepiece S90 combo..

Cape May Autumn weekend

Hello all I will be at the Cape May Fall Weekend with Kowa till Sunday , I should not be out in the field Digiscoping too much ,, but the Birding looks like it might be in favor,so if you are in the area stop by and give a shout, I should be doing some kind of demonstration with the Telephoto lens scope too, looking forward to seeing old and new friends .

http://www.birdcapemay.org/autumn.shtml

Kevin

Some new captures

Hi sorry I have not been posting latlely ,, I have been very busy but I promise that will change soon.
Lately the Birding has not been so good as I have seen but I did manage some new Common Bird captures with the TSN-884/30WIDE/CanonS90

My time with the Kowa Telephoto lens 500mm 5.6

I had this lens for about 2 weeks now and I am quite impressed with the contrast and Sharpness I am in the beginning stages of manual focusing but slowly getting the feel for it.

Of course 500mm is no comparason to 1000 to 4000mm in Digiscoping  but this setup with the Nikon D7000 can be good for flight shots and close ups with a close focus of about 10 feet makes it ideal for that so I included Hawk watch shots and Audubon captures with this segment.

Black Crowned Night Heron JUV

I ventured out on a overcast day to Mill Creek Marsh today expecting alot of Peeps and Shorebirds on migration ,, but I guess the Southerly winds hampered that action, but I did find a very trusting Juv Black Crowned Night Heron, the first shot was at about 50 feet and the second a jogger spooked him off,  and the distance was at about 200 feet ahh the magic of Digiscoping.