Posted by Mark McShane on May 04, 2016 at 02:22:47
Hi All, Thought some might enjoy handheld phonescoped video clips and video still frames of The CUBAN VIREO recently in Key West and taken on 4/22. There is one short clip of the bird vocalizing (please turn the volume up to hear the bird) which is only on my Box site. I wish that the THICK-BILLED VIREO out on the Barrier Island Nature Trail at John U. Lloyd Beach State Park in Broward County had posed so well much earlier in the day, but that did not diminish my sincere gratitude that the Thick-billed showed up in such a timely manner, or at all. I hope many folks are or were able to capture even better video footage of The CUBAN VIREO. Stunning still photos are always amazing, but there's a lot of the life of a bird to be captured via video, even in this rudimentary form! Thanks again Florida! --- Coordinates: 24.546859,-81.808516 GPS: N 24 32.812 W 81 48.511 --- Handheld phonescoped video clips and still frames (iPhone 5/Nikon Fieldscope 25-75x82mm ED Angled, with 30x/50x wide-angle as well) of The Vireo can be downloaded from the 042216 CUBAN VIREO Fort Zachary Taylor Historic SP Key West FL folder on my Box site at: https://app.box.com/shared/2yxtdkm3ta Video quality should be best when viewing the actual video files (MOV files) there as Flickr or eBird, etc., may downsample video quality a bit during upload processing. The entire folder can be downloaded or just individual files may be. --- All also easily available on Flickr at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50282116@N04/ --- Handheld phonescoped video and still frames may be best viewed on a large screen. --- A quick and easy view of some of the video still frames of the The Vireo can be had via the eBird checklist as well: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29259273 --- Information concerning how to use Apple MOV movie files can be read in my MOV Video File How-To.txt available at: http://www.box.com/s/ojj2lap6sayrj83n9zzx --- Some of the video files on the site can be a bit large and may take some minutes to download if you don't have high-speed internet access, but it may be best to download them to your desktop or somewhere on your computer before running them in QuickTime. That way they may run faster and you can keep them if you like them too. Being handheld and usually at a very high magnification they can sometimes get a little jittery, but they are still worth a look, especially since you can drag through frame by frame in QuickTime and pause the video on the best parts, playing at half speed in QuickTime can also be a good idea. --- Good Birding All, Mark Mark McShane Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia www.neargareport.com