digiscoping

Posts that either feature my digiscoped photos or talk about the art of digiscoping.

Conejohela Flats Avocets

Conejohela Flats Avocets

After an early morning of looking for warblers, I got an email about two American Avocets that were hanging out on Avocet Point at Conejohela Flats. After several years of checking out the flats regularly, I finally get to see an avocet at Avocet Point, fitting I guess. I didn’t have time to kayak out [...]

Other Creek Rd birds

Other Creek Rd birds

I didn’t manage to get great pictures of the rarer birds at Creek Road but I managed to hook my camera up to my scope for some pictures of the more common species coming to the seed pile. I was hand holding the scope out the car window while it was raining so the photos [...]

taken at John Heinz NWR

Warblers returning

I made a couple stops today and managed to see or hear five species of warblers. At Evansburg State Park I heard Louisiana Waterthrush, and saw Palm and Yellow-rumped Warblers. A quick hike later in the day at Nottingham County Park in Chester County netted me lots of Pine Warblers and 2 Black-and-white Warblers. I [...]

Pintail parade

Pintail parade

Octorara Lake has been a great spot to see Northern Pintails this year. The last time I checked the area off of Mt Eden Rd, there were probably close to one thousand pintails feeding there. I was looking for a previously reported Eurasian Wigeon but struck out on that.  Eurasian Wigeons have made quite a [...]