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    Current Sightings

    Back to a local hotspot this foggy/drizzly am: Northern Gannet flyover, a first for me. Bevy of Herring Gulls Double Crested Cormorant Alder Flycatcher Solitary Vireo/BH American Crow Black-Capped Chickadee Tree Swallow tending a nest box Gray Catbird American Redstart Veery, heard Cedar...
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    Current Sightings

    Downeast today for a drizzly/foggy coastal recce of the MCI NWR in attempts to start remedying my shorebird ineptitude. Brief detour to check out the top end of Pinkham Bay: 3 Great Blue Heron within minutes of arrival, 3 Bonaparte's Gull and a large bevy of, most likely, Common Tern, not...
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    Current Sightings

    Yesterday, foggy, light drizzle, pondside: Things are quieting down, definitely less bird activity this year over last (One gauge being the 65lbs+ of black oil seed last year vs 25 lbs this Winter/spring at the feeder). Ruffed Grouse drumming Barred Owl Song Sparrow Gray Catbird Alder or...
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    Request advice on Nikon Fieldscope

    318mm for scope proper, 383mm to tip of the 38 WF eyepiece. 54.07oz or 1.53 kg
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    Request advice on Nikon Fieldscope

    I had read plenty of reviews here, I was referring to an absence of Nikon literature. I finally just found a 1994 Nikon brochure on eebay and posted it here: 1994 Nikon ED78+Fieldscope Brochure Tidbits
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    Manual, Objective cap for the ED78 Fieldscope

    Thanks for that, the McNett is a good way to go, kinda like the rust finish! This seller has a rubber 89mm that works, though there isn't much lip to hold it on, i.e. pulling it out of its pack knocks it off. Tobacco tin with weather strip stays put snugly! Lens Eyepiece Push Up Cap Cover...
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    Current Sightings

    Out for a crepuscular patrol and heard a first ever here at the outer homestead American Bittern song emanating from the woods behind a postage stamp sized boggy sphagnum pool, slowly being colonized by Rushes, Sedges and Blue Flag Iris. Listened for 15 minutes while feeding the mosquito hoard...
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    Current Sightings

    A few pelagics while over the Grand Manan Banks yesterday: A dozen or so Greater Shearwater Oodles of Common Tern and Wilson's Storm Petrel Plenty of Atlantic Puffin Not so pelagic Herring Gull and Double Crested Cormorant 3 Humpback Whales and a Gray Seal
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    Current Sightings

    Local hotspot this am: Herring Gull Double-Crested Cormorant Broad-Winged Hawk Alder Flycatcher Solitary Vireo-Blue-Headed Blue Jay American Crow Black-Capped Chickadee Tree Swallow Starling Gray Catbird Veery, heard Lots of Cedar Waxwing American Goldfinch Song Sparrow Ovenbird Common...
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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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