[Steve Taylor] Time delay binoculars.
Here we are, taking a morning walk on the rails of the durango silverton
narrow gauge, when we see little warblers flitting about and singing in the
willows. This is not a birding walk. We don't have binoculars. Ah ha!
The camera. 12x digital zoom. That's more magnification than our 8 power
binoculars. Great magnification, but hard to see details through the
viewfinder. You could never identify a difficult bird through the
viewfinder, but you can freeze the image. So we point our camera in the
direction of the little yellow bird in the willows near the ground. Click.
We point at the little gray bird singing in the fir tree. Click.
That's it. What did we see? We have no idea. But later.... Later we
download the camera memory chip to the computer. We look at the computer
screen, we even blow it up a little, and there they are:
Virginia's Warbler. Wilson's Warbler.
Time delay binoculars (monocular).
