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Discovering Alpine Birds

Discovering Alpine Birds

http://alpinebirds.blogspot.com

All about the birds and birding in the Alps of Tirol, Austria. I love being in the mountains and sharing my passion for the alps...

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  • Winter digiscoping...

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 01:28 in waxwing, tufted duck

    Today was a hard day.I wanted to test out a digiscoping adapter with various cameras so I went out this morning hoping to find some birds to try the adapter out on. The trouble was, the birds were quiet and the light was so dim.I have no idea how peo...

  • All Blacks vs Italy in Milano

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 12:20

    Last weekend I went down to Milan, Italy, with a few rugby mates to go watch the Italy vs New Zealand All Blacks in the San Siro Stadium. It has been many years since I last got to watch a big rugby game and the chance to see the All Blacks with 80,0...

  • Winter birds this early...

    Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 13:23 in citril finch

    At the beginning of the week, we had a small group of journalists at Swarovski Optik to present the new EL42 Swarovision binoculars. On Tuesday morning, a few of them went out birding around the hotel where they were staying and found a good few cool...

  • Sea Turtles hatching in Ostional, Costa Rica

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 13:33 in Costa Rica

    Before moving on to the Honduran Caribbean and then on to the Alps of Austira, I lived in Costa Rica for three years. I was employed by a small parrot conservation organisation Amigos de las Aves. Because I loved my work, I would tend to work 7 days ...

  • "Pray for Ice" ice climbing competition 2009

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 13:33 in digiscoping

    This last week has been super busy, Saturday I was at the Alpinmesse in Innsbruck all day (an expo all about Alpine Sport). Sunday was spent in final preparations for Monday's press event for journalists where we presented the new Swarovski Optik EL ...

  • White stoats

    Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 14:57 in stoat, digiscoping

    I finally managed to get out and do some digiscoping over the weekend at one of my localfavourite Alpine birding spots - Inzinger Gaisau.I had borrowed a Canon EOS D350 from the office, attached it to a UCA digiscoping adapterand on an STM80HD scope ...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

namibnat

5 stars Vernon

Great blog, with lots about digiscoping.

Posted: September 13th, 2009 | More Reviews From namibnat | Report This Comment

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