Hi everyone,
I've been lurking and enjoying reading the posts so far ... much as I'm
intrigued by all the possibilities for nocturnal observations, for the fall
I'm primarily preoccupied with being up at dawn to do migration monitoring
via mist-netting (at McGill Bird Observatory in Montreal,
Mike et al,
to your point..
>It makes sense, but I saw more birds at 60x than at 20x. Also again,
> more birds with a polarizing filter on the end, this was also easier
> on the eyes. So where does that leave us? Well definetly we need much
> more thought of optics used and how to assign
Good point Erik, usually all the migrating birds I am seeing in PA are
going in generally the same direction, but often high birds will be
going one direction and low birds another ( like upper se, lower sw),
but some of the watching I have done along the gulf coast and atlanic
birds were
there are already too many Davids on this list... ;)
if you check out that moonwatching vid I posted, you'll see that indeed the
bad was moving in the right "general" direction, and the only way I told it
from a bird was based on the cadence of the flight, plus when I viewed it on
the big screen
Here are some digiscoped clips I took in Sept 07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOVXdVooAeQ=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQOGPtAfmr0=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASqg7OHBSw=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz6qyvsBnrI=1
I'm pretty sure in the first clip, the first two objects are
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
