{"id":2115,"date":"2011-06-17T06:19:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T10:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/2011\/06\/17\/6172011-ringed-song-sparrow-feathers-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T06:19:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T10:19:27","slug":"6172011-ringed-song-sparrow-feathers-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"6\/17\/2011: Ringed Song Sparrow, Feathers on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the birders in the house, no \u201cRinged Song Sparrow\u201d is not a new species on the AOU list\u2026just your standard Song Sparrow (of which there are slightly less then the leaves on the trees in southern Maine) with a band<\/em>, or, as the British say, a ring<\/em>. 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. <\/p>\n

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). <\/p>\n

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Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness.<\/p>\n

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