White-tailed Ptarmigan - Lagopus leucuraThis bird was digiscoped near the peaks above Loveland Pass in Colorado two years height:ago while on a birding trip led by Bill Drummond. To give you an idea of how hard it is to spot these little white birds (and I should note that I was not the person who found it!) this is what the landscape looked like:
OK, can you spot the bird in the above photo? Click to enlarge if it helps. Don't worry if you can't - I took the photo and it took me a long time to find it in my own photo. Scroll down to see where it is.
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Yep - that's it. No, I'm not kidding! Just goes to show how powerful digiscoping can be!
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