For the birders in the house, no “Ringed Song Sparrow” is not a new species on the AOU list…just your standard Song Sparrow (of which there are slightly less then the leaves on the trees in southern Maine) with a band, or, as the British say, a ring. The band is probably from the banding station at Laudholm farm (where the image was taken). This bird was obliging enough to pose in an old apple tree while I got the digiscoping rig grounded and shot off two bursts of images. The light was less than ideal, well overcast and threatening rain, which is were the Back-illuminated CMOS sensor in my current digiscoping camera comes into its own.

Canon SD4000IS behind the eyepiece of a ZEISS DiaScope 85FL spotting scope for the equivalent field of view of an 1800mm lens on a full frame DSLR, 1/80th second @ ISO 400, f5 effective (set by the camera in this case).

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness.