New camera for Digiscoping

or dodgyscoping as I like to call it.

The Fuji finepix f40 8.3 megapixel (click to enlarge) will be multi use for us as we have ordered an underwater housing so that we can take it diving and I can also use it through the scope whilst birdwatching.










Popped out the back fields to try it out. Not much shutter lag, it doesnt wait a second and then miss the subject like most digi compacts. Sharp response and great focusing too.

Heres some redwings feeding in the fields.





























....and all the usual suspects at the feeders





































































































As well as the above 7 species, here what else was around the garden today....

GS woodpecker
magpie
jay
rook
carrion crow
wood pigeon
goldcrest
wren
pied wagtail
long tailed tit
starling flocks
chaffinch
greenfinch
siskin flocks
goldfinch flocks

This may be the last post until the new year as we are going scuba diving (with the fuji f40) in Egypt on Wednesday, for a week. I'll be taking the bins, but no scope, and I;ll report any nice Egyptian bird species I see between dives.