optics

A little over a month ago I was hiking up a mountain path outside of Innsbruck, Austria, with birders from…

I like 8x30s. I started with one such pair, until I capsized my kayak and had to swim to the…

Those of you who go outside like actual birders and/or adults may not be aware of the latest craze to…

I was feeling fairly disheartened. My big year, after starting off with an incredible rarity, had fizzled. A literal wild…

My best bird of the weekend was a Great Black-backed Gull, a rarity in a land-locked Serbia, with less than…

As some of you may be aware, I spend a lot of time on aeroplanes, working my way to exotic…

Every birder wants the best optics possible. But what that means often depends on circumstance. I love my Swarovski EL…

It is not every day that a birder gets to play with a prototype scope made by one of the…

I’ve already written about trying my hand at iScoping through my binoculars using the Meopta MeoPix iScoping adapter and, since…

Do you grow tired of lugging a camera into the field on the off chance you’ll see something you need…