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Binocular of the Year Awards announced for 2010

The 2010 Binocular of the Year awards have been announced at Binoculars.com.  The winners for seven selected categories were posted recently and the selections are worthy.  Any time I see an award given to a binocular I always remember its still only an opinion.  I have personally done field testing trying to conclude the never [...]

New binoculars for 2010

2010 brings some exciting new products to binoculars   Nikon’s all new Monarch Dielectric Binoculars This year we saw a change to the most popular binocular in a decade.  The Nikon Monarch binocular got an update by adding Dielectric coatings.  The Nikon 8×42 Monarch Binoculars and Nikon 10×42 Monarch Binoculars have been among the highest reviewed binoculars under 500 dollars for nearly ten [...]

Olympia - Part II

Birders Scott and Penny are back at it in Olympia, Washington. Here’s how their long day of birding in Washington’s capital turned out: We had enough time after lunch to walk to the capitol building along the shores of Capital Lake, a dammed body of water adjacent to Budd Inlet, resting below the capitol itself.  The [...]

Olympia - Part I

Birders Scott and Penny set out for a two-part birding adventure. Check out what they saw in colorful detail… Bored with the normal weekend pursuit of new yard birds, Scott and I went looking for a novel local area in which to bird.  After all it was Scott’s birthday weekend and we needed something completely different [...]

A Few Lessons from Dillon

“Can we go bird chasing tomorrow?!” We are visiting Scott’s family in the tiny town of Spences Bridge, British Columbia.  His young great-nephew is eager to go birding with us again.  We have taken him out in the height of the spring and early summer when Lewis’s Woodpecker, Lazuli Buntings, and Osprey drip from the trees [...]

Gems of the North

Bundle up. Bird bloggers Scott and Penny take us on a winter birding adventure, north of the border. “^(!@&$%(! Hawk Owl!” I braked sharply, sliding the car to a stop, narrowly avoiding the snow bank.  Following Scott’s shaky directions, I spied the lovely Northern Hawk Owl perched serenely on the top of a stunted pine.  Turning [...]

The Trouble with Tabbies

Here’s another post from our birding experts, Penny Rose and Scott Hoskin: The dreaded phone call finally came on a Friday afternoon.  While relaxing on his day off Scott was horrified to see Lady Raz catch and kill a Dark-eyed Junco in our backyard before he could intervene.  This little tabby had shown up in our [...]