Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com It’s only natural that photographers are attracted to birding and that birders are attracted to photography. Photographing birds is rewarding, but presents special challenges. The Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is offering classes of interest to birding and wildlife photographers. See if there’s something here that interests you: ...

Digiscoping is the art of using a spotting scope to increase the lens magnification of a compact camera. I first heard about the practice when birders with expensive monoculars would try to get photos of their subjects by holding their digicams up the eyepieces of their scopes and taking pictures. When I was at the very top of Oracle Arena Friday night for a Warriors game, I had the Canon ...

... . It all started out about a month ago when I finally convinced myself that I could afford a digiscoping rig. Now this is like buying a second car...a whole lot of thought goes into this endeavor. Do I ... Time to put the two together after reading all the manuals and numerous blogs on detailed digiscoping tips. This is where things started to go wrong. First I got the Coot in focus on the scope and ...

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750 The Fill – Seattle, Washington June 27, 2008 I had posted a few photos of these young Tree Swallows using my Nikon D80. This photo was taken with my digiscoping system – Nikon P4 with a Nikon Fieldscope 82mm ED. Not the greatest photo, but it does allow me to get up-close and personal!

... ;s tendons as well as those in the knee. Oh, I'm not ready to climb Mt. Washington--or even Katahdin, but things are definitely looking up. With the bird feeding season underway, I got my digiscoping equipment out for the first time in months only to discover that the battery in the Nikon Coolpix P1 that I have mounted to the scope had died. No fear! I had a spare. I popped the spare ...