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  1. Alexis Powell

    Opinion on low cost spotting scopes =

    All of that seems very normal to me. Wanting to ID what you can see with your eyes is the definition of normal birding, and as a consequence, larger distances are usually only involved when it comes to ID of correspondingly larger birds. I use a 30x78 (or 82) scope for almost all scope birding...
  2. Alexis Powell

    Opinion on low cost spotting scopes =

    Does your wife use the bins on a tripod? If not, you'll be able to see more through a scope because of the tripod stabilized image, not just potentially higher magnification. I'm not a fan of today's cheap scopes, especially their cheap zoom eyepieces. In the old days, most birders had scopes...
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