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    Current Sightings

    Homestead yesterday: Usual suspects 4 Cedar Waxwings Barred Owl heard Broad-Winged Hawk heard Nighthawks overhead Out for a paddle, local pond: 6 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Common Loon 3 Painted Turtle A lot of N Pitcher Plant blooming
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    Current Sightings

    Fairly quiet pondside today: Heard Ruffed Grouse drumming Myrtle Warbler Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow Meadowbrook Field for 10min 2 Bobolink Willow Flycatcher heard Yellow Warbler spotted w/o binos at 200' no problem, looking very bright. American Crow Ermine with a mouse in its mouth.
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    Current Sightings

    Correction on the above 'White Trillium' It's actually Nodding Trillium, Trillium cernuum, not the supposedly extirpated T. Grandiflorum
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    New binos by mid June.

    How surprising!
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    New binos by mid June.

    I love a 10X but I've used a Pentax 12X50 for 30+ years so 10X seems wide! Given the budget extension:), the above Nikon MHG is a good choice but if you want to stay in your original range, the Hawke Frontier 8X42 or 10X42 ED X are excellent with a great warranty. If you're doing anything in low...
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    Current Sightings

    5/26 Homestead: Ruffed Grouse Good viewing of a resident Ovenbird Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Blue Jay Red Breasted Nuthatch Black Capped Chickadee Eastern Phoebe Chipping Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Osprey flyover Hairy Woodpecker Meadowbrook field: Bobolink Yellow Warbler 1st year M Redstart Bald...
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    Current Sightings

    5/24-25/24 Up to the S end of the North Woods for a night this weekend, found a nice camp for an early morning start to stalking the American Bittern. They are common here in the boggy backwaters but often difficult to see due to access. A dusk recon down a nice mossy peat bog bordered woods...
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    What Bird can you hear just now?

    Black-Billed Cuckoo- FOY, Blue Jay, Common Yellowthroat, Robin, Crow, Winter Wren, Mourning Dove, Myrtle Warbler
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    Which binocular(s) did you use today?

    Hawke 8X42 Frontier ED X pondside, Nice view of a low flying Broad-winged Hawk, Common Yellowthroat, Myrtle warbler in hawking acrobatics, pair of Gray Catbirds and Chipping Sparrow.
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    What Bird can you hear just now?

    Ovenbird, Common Nighthawk, Hermit Thrush, Robin
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    Current Sightings

    Often hear the Winter Wren but rarely see the skulking, vociferous little dynamo. Caught it checking out an evening roost, I assume, in the hollow of a dead birch snag, it opted for elsewhere, but a nice long view after its complicated song. Ovenbirds are dominating the chorus back in the woods...
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    Current Sightings

    Up into the North Maine Woods, along the AWW for a few days: American Bittern- heard as I stopped to air down tires next to a bog, no luck getting a visual. Osprey, 4 Bald Eagle Saw Whet Owl heard 2 nights in camp, unseen. Raven nest with 2 juveniles looking about ready to fledge, and a busy...
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    1994 Nikon ED78+Fieldscope Brochure Tidbits

    The complete ED78/A 1994 Fieldscopes & Spotting Scopes brochure, with Spotting Scope A and Spotter XL
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    1994 Nikon ED78+Fieldscope Brochure Tidbits

    Tunnel vision times! Brochure is incoming, at half price even, I'll post all of it when it arrives.
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    Great Horned Owl - Piedmont NC by sound only.

    It's a bit more difficult to access some of the owl's other roost spots in an urban setting without upsetting the neighbors but have a good look into the trees you can, you may get lucky. Use satellite imagery to scan your neighborhood from above, pick out the areas with denser tree growth...
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    Which Camera to Buy?

    Depending on how close the birds are, that lens will do fine. Treetop warblers, on the other hand are difficult to get a good angle on unless you're looking into a steep valley from one side or an overlook of sorts. The XTi combined with this 400 F5.6L would give you a 640mm equivalent lens...
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    Current Sightings

    Pondside lunch today...with poor pics: Bald Eagle flyover E Bluebird M American Redstart, FOY Black Throated Green E Phoebe Common Yellowthroat Song sparrow Goldfinch Purple Finch Lots of Myrtle Warbler No sign of yesterday's Black Throated Blue Warbler F Ruby Throated Hummingbird Spied FOY...
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    1994 Nikon ED78+Fieldscope Brochure Tidbits

    I may have to spend the $16 for 11 pages and post it up properly but here are these:
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    Request advice on Nikon Fieldscope

    They are excellent! I just became the steward of an ED78, very impressive. Odd I could find nearly no mention about them online. I realize they were introduced in 1994, before the internet advertising of the ED78's "bells and whistles." From the reviews I've read here, I believe you are an...
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    Current Sightings

    5/11/24 Stopped over to the not-so-local local Audubon Center for an early birdwalk, neither are my forte, early nor populous but nice to chat with some fellow birders. To start at the beginning of this Global Big Day, a la Cornell...at the homestead, I was out dumping coffee grounds into the...
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    Manual, Objective cap for the ED78 Fieldscope

    Outer diameter of the ED78 is 89mm, the above listed Opticron cap probably won't stretch to that if it fits an 82mm also, but IDK. The quest continues, I'll try the 77mm pinch but don't know if I'll best the prohobo MacGyvered tobacco tin with 5/16" closed cell weather stripping stuck around its...
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    Current Sightings

    Late morning jaunt over to a local coastal hotspot-- en route: 1 Bald Eagle flying, being harried by a pair of crows On site: Yellow Warbler, FOY Black & White Warbler Nashville Warbler Black Throated Green Warbler Pair of Northern Cardinal Downy woodpecker Song Sparrow Northern Parula 4...
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    Spotter Recommendation

    This is the seller I bought my ED78 from, it arrived today, free Fedex shipping, 2 days from Japan to Maine. Impeccably packaged, beautiful scope, solid build, stunning image quality, thoroughly satisfied. If I wasn't, return shipping is paid by seller. Top notch...
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    Current Sightings

    Today's gray and raw pondside lunch was with: numerous Myrtle Warbler and 3 Eastern Phoebe hawking insects off the water's surface, while a pair Song Sparrow was accessing the same quarry from floating mats of last year's cattail, if not skulking at the water's rooty edge among the Spirea and...
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    Spotter Recommendation

    Here's an angled with 20-45 zoom, angled are designated with an A: [MINT] Nikon Field Scope ED II A D=60 P +20-45x 25-56x Eyepiece From Japan | eBay The Fieldscope 1, which can be found with ED glass won't accept later eyepieces, and IDK if an angled version was made. The ED II will take later...
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