Experimentation

What a soggy, miserable-looking Red-legged Partridge. 

It's not the most beautiful photo, but I took it with my iPhone through my scope. It's not cropped or edited in any way and once I'd found the optimum distance from my scope's eyepiece, there was no vignetting.

So far, so good, but it's quite fiddly to find exactly the right position for the phone. An adapter is most definitely required. I'm on the lookout for suitable materials - cardboard, the middles of rolls of tape, bits of pipe, maybe even margarine tubs - to manufacture something. Watch this space.

iPhonescoping. You read it here first (I think...).

photo taken with Apple iPhone 3G S + Leica Apo Televid 77 with 20x eyepiece

Fence-sitter

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

'How do I get up there?'

I've taken the crumb tray off the bird feeder for now, as it was getting emptied too quickly (Rooks are to blame, I think - they seem to have a penchant for sunflower seeds). Now the male Red-legged Partridge can't work out how to get up there.

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D + EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

That takes the biscuit

I'm all for feeding the garden birds, but this is ridiculous...

video taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 77 with 20x eyepiece

The Frenchman

Too dark and through a pane of glass, like all my videos. This Red-legged Partridge accompanied his mate on a visit to our garden this morning. It would be nicer if Grey Partridges came instead, but that's not likely around here. Red-legs are funny to watch and they usually end up sitting on the fence at some point.

video taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 77 with 20x eyepiece