A Good Day to Go Birding

A Good Day to Go Birding

I stand in my kitchen, coffee cup in my hand. Like many mornings, I beat my alarm. No, I didn’t use a hammer. I mean that I’m awake before it goes off. I’m already dressed, boots and birding vest on. The vest pockets are already filled with my field guides, [...]

Nikon Monarch Binoculars – Birding Watching Takes The Right Equipment

Bird watching takes the right equipment to make the difference between a fun, relaxing hobby and an exercise in frustration. Birding binoculars make all the difference and allow you to not only get out in nature but to birdwatch up close and personal.The usual choice for most birdwatchers is 7, 8 or 10x magnification in overall use. [...]

Binoculars and Birding for Autumn and Winter

With the coming of autumn in the Northern hemisphere, there is the usual migration of birds to warmer areas of the continent. There are a number of challenges that go along with birding in the autumn.
Young birds are harder to identify as their plumage may not have reached maturity. They may not match up to [...]

Advanced Birding and the Spotting Scope

Advanced Birding and the Spotting Scope

 

Most of us begin birding with a field guide and a pair of binoculars.  Yet, we eventually realize that certain situations demand our acquisition of a spotting scope.  It may be that we find ourselves at the wetlands and can not quite tell if we are looking at a White [...]

Birding Binoculars From Windowalert

Birding Binoculars are visual enhancement devices for bird watchers that let them have a closer look at birds. They provide clear and sharp view in all types of environment, at any time of the day, and in every kind of weather condition. Thesebird-watching binoculars let you observe hard-to-view creatures and provide better view of fast-moving [...]

Spotting Scopes Terminology – Best Spotting Scopes For Birding

Spotting Scopes Terminology
Spotting scopes are used when more magnification is needed or wanted than binoculars provide. Spotting scopes are used widely for birding, viewing wildlife and landscapes and other objects at a great distance. Much of the terminology and technical specifications specific to spotting scopes are similar to binoculars. For example, a 20-60×82 spotting scope [...]

How to Choose the Best Birding Binoculars

Optics workers will tell you they are often asked to recommend the best binocular for birders (bird watchers) To match the binocular to the birder it helps to first look at the needs of the birding enthusiast.
What sort of optical demands must we consider? Well for one thing the birder need to see details like [...]

Birding Tips 2: Cleaning lenses in the field

Birding Tips 2: Lens Cleaning Like most birders, I only tend to think about cleaning my dirty binoculars when I am out in the field. The challenge, of course, is then how does one clean a binocular or telescope lens in the field with out scratching that seriously expensive glass? Using your T-shirt is certainly [...]

Binoculars Terminology – Best Binoculars For Birding

Fulfilling your bird watching and wild bird identification efforts will be realized by understanding basic binoculars’ terminology.
Binoculars Terminology
Power/Magnification and Objective Lens Diameter (example 8×42)
The first number, the Power or Magnification measurement, is the degree that the object being viewed is enlarged. In this example, binoculars with an 8 power magnification will magnify the object 8 [...]

Nikon Birding 2010 Commercial

Nikon Birding’s 2010 TV Commercial Watch full episodes of Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV at: www.birdingadventurestv.com

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