Go beyond the Reach with Digiscoping

Me and Roy Halpin were talking about certain advantages and disadvantages that both conventional Photography and Digiscoping have  one of the main reasons was the focal length reach to small passerines especially in a crowded area such as the Magee Marsh Boardwalk  that pretty much hinders the big 500 to 600 mm lens useless exspecially at peak hours . So many Photographers resolve this issue by using a 300 to 400mm hand held system ,,that is good when the Bird such as a Warbler is no more than 15 feet distance from the lens with some cropping maybe adding up to about 700mm .

So me and Roy using both conventional and Digiscoping gear did a test on a Cerulean Warbler at about 100 feet both shots are uncropped .

Roy was using a Canon 7D with a Canon 300mm f4 lens.

I was using a Kowa 884 with the Sony RX100 with the 25/60 Wide Zoom eyepiece.

I was Zoomed to about the halfway on the optical Zoom on the RX-100, the eyepiece was at about 40 power giving me about 2800mm in focal length .

Roy Halpin"s capture.

Kevin Bolton's capture.

Appalacian Trail Blue Winged and Prairie Warblers

It is the Time of the Year again for myself to venture about to some of the fine Warbler Breeding areas New Jersey has to offer,,,one particular area I enjoy is the Wallkill WMA which is in Sussex county at the North West corner of the state.

The Appalachian trail runs through this stretch of the Wallkill, providing a good Grassland along with Cedar trees dotting the area perfect for Grasshopper Sparrows, Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlark and a few different Warblers being the predominate Blue Winged and Prairie .

Magee Marsh Stunners

I had a great week at Magee Marsh with Paul Hackett ,Roy Halpin and Annette Cunniffe ,with Kowa and the Digsco adapters.

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I  would say my highlight captures are my Blackburnian and Bay Breasted Warbler's.

There were plenty of more sought after species like Cerulean and Cape May Warblers.

There were many Common species keeping low within the canopy Yellow Warblers along with numerous Yellow Rumps .

Black Throated and Green Warbler"s put up a great show also