I use my phone on a scope sometimes too. I find it works best if I center what I want on the scope and then move the phone to the eyepiece while watching the phone screen. That allows me to get on center fast.
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What a beautiful Saturday to not be inside
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I use my phone on a scope sometimes too. I find it works best if I center what I want on the scope and then move the phone to the eyepiece while watching the phone screen. That allows me to get on center fast.
TorontoBuilder
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There is a seasonal stream that passes thru the farm behind us... Can't do much about it. If I lived here I'd set traps around the property.
How is SWMBO liking it?
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She is loving it... Except for the mozzies as she calls them.
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My property is loaded with deer and that attracts coyotes. I see deer daily and coyotes a couple of times a year. I hear them a few times a week in the summer but they mostly stay out of the fields. Whenever I see a coyote or hear them close by I chase them away. A pack of coyotes killed a woman in the other end of my province about 14 years go. The ones in my end of the province are quite skittish around humans.
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No @Doggggboy she isn't an aussie but her best friend from her childhood is. They've remained lifelong best friends
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Tonight's view.. looking towards Toronto where they had thunderstorms
20 minutes after taking this pic our neighbourhood deer made an appearance right in the middle of this view
20 minutes after taking this pic our neighbourhood deer made an appearance right in the middle of this view
Down to the end of the block to check the mailbox, then one photo facing west, one facing east. Sunset shot is towards Galiano Island, blue sky shot is towards Westham Island in the mouth of the Fraser River.
Politics aside, and our country isn’t perfect, with pockets of hardship, but in general we live in Paradise.
Politics aside, and our country isn’t perfect, with pockets of hardship, but in general we live in Paradise.
We have a family of ducks on the pond this year. The hen is VERY skittish! We have coyotes, fox, mink, weasels, racoons, eagles, and hawks here. If I try to get close, she is GONE!
I used my phone with a spotting telescope on a tripod instead. As indicated earlier, if you start a ways back, and then move toward the scope with the opening centered on the screen, it's a lot easier to get a decent shot.
Compare that with 10x on the camera alone.
I used my phone with a spotting telescope on a tripod instead. As indicated earlier, if you start a ways back, and then move toward the scope with the opening centered on the screen, it's a lot easier to get a decent shot.
Compare that with 10x on the camera alone.
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Look what stopped in for a drink at my pond.....
The bird is a grackle not a crow. The fawn is about the size of a cat. It is alone. Mom will drop by later tonight. If it's the same doe that had twins in the yard last year, it will be alone most of its young life even when winter comes. She only dropped by to nurse and then gone. Most does only leave them alone till they can run and then take them with them wherever they go. Last year, the fawns played by themselves in my yard all day long. It was fun to watch them grow. It was also nice to have them show up almost on cue whenever we had company.
The bird is a grackle not a crow. The fawn is about the size of a cat. It is alone. Mom will drop by later tonight. If it's the same doe that had twins in the yard last year, it will be alone most of its young life even when winter comes. She only dropped by to nurse and then gone. Most does only leave them alone till they can run and then take them with them wherever they go. Last year, the fawns played by themselves in my yard all day long. It was fun to watch them grow. It was also nice to have them show up almost on cue whenever we had company.