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Greetings,
So many binoculars to choose among! Michael
and Diane Porter's "Mid-priced Binoculars
Round Up" appears in the November, 2007,
issue of Bird Watcher's Digest. It's a
careful comparison of 56 binoculars priced
between $300 and $800. Read
it here.
| Chickadee Smarts |
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Chickadees look smart, with their crisp,
clean black-and-white pattern and their quick
movements. And they are smart.
To us, all black-capped chickadees may look
alike. But scientific studies now show that
they recognize each other as individuals,
just as certainly as we know our friends and
family.
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| Ask Diane about Squirrel Resistance |
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Dear Diane: I want to feed BIRDS, not
squirrels! How can I get the squirrels to
stop raiding my feeders?
— Sandy
Joseph,
Corona, California
Squirrels like to eat the same things that
birds eat, and they'll do almost anything to
get the food. Here are some ways to keep the
squirrels from emptying your bird feeders.
Any one or better yet any combination of
these strategies might reserve the feeders
for your birds.
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| The Stabilizing Stick |
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If your arms get tired when you look up into
trees for a long time with your binoculars,
the image can start to jiggle. What's needed
is a way to stabilize the binoculars, without
having to carry a tripod all the time.
Meet the useful, ubiquitous stick. It's the
low-tech way to get a steady view and take a
load off your arms when you want to look
upward for an extended time.
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Field Guide ABCs |
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North America has a bonanza of field guides, all covering pretty much the same birds. But the birds don't appear in the same sequence in all books. So how is a person to find a bird?
Field guide sequence uses a sort of of ABC of birds. This sequence is the key to quickly looking a bird up.
Here's how the ABC of field guides works. And here are links to reviews of the field guides old and new that birders love best.
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