Now that I have a job with a company that sells optics, I'm reluctant to post about subjects related to optics, but a lot of people have been asking me exactly how my digiscoping set up works. I'm particularly proud of a little homemade adaptor that I've made that works really well for holding a "point-and-shoot" digital camera against a spotting scope, which I made from the measuring cup that comes with liquid Nyquil (a company with which I have absolutely no financial ties--I just happened to go through a lot this winter when I had pneumonia) and an outer tube that could easily be duplicated for other spotting scopes using a toilet paper tube or even just duct tape. I put a page about my "point-and-shoot digiscoping" here:
<http://www.birderblog.com/bird/Digiscoping/PointAndShootDigi.html> Laura Erickson Duluth, MN www.birderblog.com There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. --Rachel Carson
