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the Fife Bird Club seawatching hide that afternoon with Ken Shaw as the winds were strong from the NW and we both thought it could be good for seabird passage. Local birder and photographer John Anderson, Chris Rodger (RSPB Vane Farm) and I watched from the hide and soon we were seeing some close se...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.464.222 http://www.thesoc.myzen.co.uk/docs/scottish-birds/sb-vol30-no04.pdf |
| Summary: | the Fife Bird Club seawatching hide that afternoon with Ken Shaw as the winds were strong from the NW and we both thought it could be good for seabird passage. Local birder and photographer John Anderson, Chris Rodger (RSPB Vane Farm) and I watched from the hide and soon we were seeing some close seabirds including a Great Skua which flew over the rocks in front of the hide. This sighting persuaded JA to move out onto the rocks to the left of the hide to try and capture some close flight shots. Chris and I had seen a few Manx Shearwaters, Arctic and Great Skuas when to my great surprise a juvenile White-tailed Eagle flew in low from the south struggling against the very strong winds and it set down on the rocks to the right of the hide, fortunately I had remembered my Samsung NV3 digital camera so I started to take some pictures of the bird through my telescope (Swarovski ATM 85 HD with 20-60 Zoom). When I am digiscoping I hand hold my camera and have it set to auto usually with the camera zoom set to max optical and I set the telescope zoom to x 20, as the eagle was reasonably close I also took a few shot with the camera zoom set back from max optical, but most were taken at x 3 (full optical zoom on the Samsung). When I am digiscoping I always take many pictures and I tend to vary the telescope focus to try and enable at least a few sharp images. The eagle had a large yellow wing tag ‘L ’ and a radio transmitter and was one of this year’s east of Scotland releases. KDS soon joined us in the hide and enjoyed some fine views of the eagle, later in the afternoon we managed to see a few Sooty Shearwaters, but the star of the afternoon was the White-tailed Eagle. |
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