A Great Blue Heron

By Mike on December 27, 2007 9:58 AM | | Comments (0)

One of my new toys this Christmas is a spotting scope, which is useful for bird watching, given that I can't fly and I generally shy away from climbing trees.

I've recently been intrigued with the concept of digiscoping, wherein you slap a digital camera onto the end of a scope's viewfinder. I don't think my camera is quite up to snuff on this one, but I tried anyway.

I spotted a great blue heron in a tree above the pond just beyond the horse pasture. The focus was terrible, but one of them is so bad that it came out like an impressionist painting.

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