Just curious about how many times other people have had this same problem where you’re driving and spot a cool species like hawks, eagles, basically animals and plants that you don’t tend to just randomly run into very often out in the wild, but you can’t stop and get a picture because you’re drivin…

I hate fast trains more than car, there was a spring day with like ten buzzards, including a pair, one buzzard catching grass snake right when in front of me, a pair of ravens, a flock of cranes, another day I had a stork flying right above us a minute after I put my phone down, also in winter I saw…

Don’t drive alone and then you can look out and take pics! :rofl: Images are surprisingly better with the newer phones. While driving at highway speeds my daughter sent a picture of something while her gf was driving and I was surprised I could see blades of grass at the side of the road. Sure, driv…

The next purchase for my photography arsenal – a dashboard camera. For getting those shots when you just can’t stop. Of course, photo’ing some animal on the roadside (rather than in the road) might require some creative driving maneuvers … ;-)

If you want this for wildlife photos, definitely try for something with a high frame rate. I have a dashcam that I’ve tried to use for wildlife crossing in front of car/roadkill in the past, and the stills tend to lack detail, even in good light. The cameras are also really wide angle (by design) so…

If you’re not in the driver’s seat, take them as you go! I took this one as we were driving by (not the nicest, but you get the idea). [image] Many species can even be identified from these photos.

Yeah, I was mostly joking about getting such a camera. But after seeing the videos of the Chelyabinsk meteor captured on dash cams, I thought that could have application for getting images of wildlife.

Check the latest, Krasnoyarsk meteor, it also got on many car cameras. Also, there’s this observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47949698

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