Digiscoping Images - Birds

For the last few weeks I have been out golfing but the sunny Easter weather took me to the local bird pond to photograph the birds.

With digiscoping bright weather is required, otherwise the images will not come out well.

Here are some images I took.

Male Tufted Duck

Female Tufted Duck

Coot

Coot obscured behind some reeds.

Teal

Grey Heron

Nesting Whooper Swan

Great Crested Grebe

The Whooper Swan is unusual because Whoopers usually fly to Iceland to breed over the summer. This swan seems unable to fly the journey to Iceland so has remained behind. There were no other Whooper swans in the pond, but there was a Mute Swan so it may be that he is the father!

The digiscoped images have come out quite well. I find that the camers slightly over-exposes the images so it is best to take images in RAW format and under-expose the shots.