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  1. CharleyBird

    Which binocular(s) did you use today?

    Trusty 8x30e2, watching a sparrowhawk sat on our hedge about 25ft beyond the kitchen window, terrorising the families of house sparrows that live within. Then the local magpies mob the sparrowhawk which withdraws
  2. CharleyBird

    Which binocular(s) did you use today?

    Optician traveller 6x32, in the garden for a change. We have a dead 40' whitebeam which is great tree for summer viewing, having no foliage. Today the 141@100m FOV caught greenfinch, willow warbler and blue tit all together in one view. The 6x32 have long 19mm eye relief, and I dont wear...
  3. CharleyBird

    Which binocular(s) did you use today?

    In Hartlepool to see the Tall Ships leave, racing to Norway if I recall rightly. As we walked along a small Headland sidestreet, four swifts flying at no more than ten feet off the ground screamed past us making us jump. Then we went to Crimdon beach. Watched eight barn swallows skimming over...
  4. CharleyBird

    Which binocular(s) did you use today?

    Borrowed my sister's Steiner 8x44 XP Discovery, to identify soaring Herring and Lesser Black Backed gulls at distance (in an idyllic blue sky with cotton-wool-ball clouds). The Steiner Discovery remain the most natural fit of any binocular I've tried, due to the moulded barrels and integral...
  5. CharleyBird

    Which binocular(s) did you use today?

    Leica 10x32 uv+ to watch a pair of greenfinch on trees in bright sunlight at the bottom of the garden. They seem wary birds but do come very close to the house to drink (from a large bowl with perching stones in front of a window) though only briefly. The 10×32 are usually on hand to look at...
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