Here are some digiscoped clips I took in Sept 07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOVXdVooAeQ&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQOGPtAfmr0&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASqg7OHBSw&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz6qyvsBnrI&NR=1 I'm pretty sure in the first clip, the first two objects are birds (the close one even looks like a duck/loon-type) and the third, beginning at the upper left quadrat of the moon and moving down and right, appears to be a bat based on flight style. I've viewed these on a projected screen which makes it easier to interpret (maybe). In the other three clips I'm pretty confident the objects are birds. These were taken through a Leica Televid APO 77mm scope, with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera. Good Moon Watching! David ____________________________________________________ David A. La Puma, Ph.D. Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources Online Teaching Portfolio: http://www.woodcreeper.com/teaching Lockwood lab: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jlockwoo Websites: http://www.woodcreeper.com http://badbirdz2.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodcreeper On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:30 AM, David Mozurkewich <moz...@bellatlantic.net>wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 02:53 -0600, Ted Floyd wrote: > > > I should think that, given distant and fleeting views of such animals, > > there's the potential to over-count birds by accidentally counting bats > > and moths. Any pearls of wisdom on this one? > > Ted, > > All the birds are flying the same direction while other critters have > random flight paths. This eliminates most false alarms and is good > enough except when the birds are a minority of your detections. > -- > David Mozurkewich > Seabrook, MD USA > > > -- > NFC-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES > > http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > -- > -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html --
