Red-shouldered Hawk. Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera FL

Next week I will travel to the tropics for the first time: Honduras and Pico Bonito Lodge, on a ZEISS VICTORY SF Experience trip, along with 20 other people. I am one of the “leaders” so I am working on putting together a light-weight, compact, spotting scope/digiscoping kit. Yesterday afternoon I tested it out a Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, one of the best places in central Florida for bird photography. This Red-shouldered Hawk is regular there, using the same perches around the observation tower on the inner driving loop. It appeared on schedule and I got to photograph it to my heart’s content…testing various options on the camera and scope. It is a magnificent bird…on a small, compact scale. A fitting subject for a compact digiscoping outfit. 🙂

ZEISS DiaScope 65FL with the Canon SD320 behind the 30x wide-field eyepiece, for the equivalent field of view of a 1950mm lens. 1/640th @ ISO 100. Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro 3 tablet.