Perspectance

While taking the Birding class during October and November, I went out many times to observe birds. I usually took binoculars, a notepad and pencil, and some bird identification books. I’ve always been frustrated not being able to see birds well enough to tell what they are, so on these trips, I was also excited to take along my iPod recorder to try and identify the birds by their sound. The whole sound project was a learning experience, but did not contribute as much to identifying birds.

Thankfully, two or three times Doug came with me, bringing his Nikon D60 camera with something like 6 or 7 megapixels and a big 200mm telephoto lens. I was amazed how much detail we could observe by zooming in after loading the pictures on the computer and into a photo editing program. As I looked up the kinds of birds I thought we had seen, sometimes I would realize the evidence pointed to a different species. This slide show is built to show the naked eye and sometimes binocular view contrasted with a zoom and crop on the computer.