Using Bird Watching Binoculars

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Part of the video series: Bird Watching Binoculars & Field Guides

Summary: There are two main ways to use your bird watching binoculars: the map method and the zen method. Learn how to use these two methods as a bird watcher in this free bird watching video about how to begin to bird watch.

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By Cary Salter
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Cary Salter has been bird watching for the past twenty five years. As a boy, Cary was a boy scout where he has taken his interest for nature and continued into a lifelong passion. Cary...read more

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"In the field with a pair of binoculars, never use your shirt tail to clean them. Always carry a microfiber cloth that is made to clean glass, it will not scratch your lenses. When you have a bird you want to look at, there are two basic methods of using your binocular. One is the map method. You find the telephone pole, raise it up to the wire, and move across the wire, and there's the bird, hopefully he hasn't flown. The one that most birders use, I call the zin method. Where I've got my body perpendicular to a line where the bird is, I look at the bird. I do not move anything but my hands and my binocular and there's the bird, right in place. That takes about five minutes of practice and then you'll be able to do it for a lifetime."