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Summary: Spotting scopes can find birds that are two to three hundred yards away. Learn how to use a spotting scope as a bird watcher in this free bird watching video about how to begin to bird watch.
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
"Some times the birds are not going to cooperate, they won't be within ten or twenty feet of you. They may be 200 or 300 yards away. In those cases, you really need a spotting scope. A spotting scope is a higher power optic device. This particular scope has a zoom from 20 power to 60 power. That means the bird 300 yards away will be sixty times the size that he is in my naked eye. A lot of times when I'm out with my scope, and I see something out there, I practice a hobby that's really catching on. It's called Digi-Scoping; where a small, point-and-shoot camera is attached to a bracket, which allows it to be attached to the eyepiece of the scope, and then you can take an image of the bird that you're looking at."
eHow Article: Using a Spotting Scope in Bird Watching
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