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Birding Binoculars – Which are Best?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

When you hardly notice the weight in your hands while you are watching some curious little warbler in the brush, you know you have purchased a good pair of binoculars for yourself. With good binoculars you sometimes feel like you are looking with your own eyes only the view is closer, magnified and clear. How big do you want that image to be? Well, that will depend on many things. How heavy will the binoculars be with extra magnification? Can you hold the binoculars steady if they are magnified more than 10 times (10x)? How heavy will the binoculars be with extra magnification?

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Waterproof Leupold Binoculars Had No Damage

Monday, May 25th, 2009

I never expected it to happen to me. A year or so later I was on a canoe trip in the Adirondack Mountains region. I love those clear glacial lakes and refreshing cool or cold water. Of course I had my wonderful Leupold compact binoculars with me everywhere I went. I was a beginning birder at the time and I looked for new lifelist birds everywhere I traveled.

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