Subject: Finding birds
Date: Dec 14 09:38:00 1996
From: JohnRoby at aol.com - JohnRoby at aol.com


I don't have laser equipped binoculars, but I do have a low tech partial
solution to the problem of pointing out birds to a companion. I have a
section of tubing taped to the outside of my scope, aligned so that when you
look through the tube, you see what is in the visual field of the scope. It
is primarily for rapid location of objects in the scope, but it works nicely
for showing others where you see a bird. They can look throgh the tube and
know just where the bird is. Its' major disadvantage is that it its slow,
but the little dickey birds move so much that they trying to describe where
they are doesn't work very well either. The tube can get knocked out of
alignment, but it only takes seconds to get it adjusted. It is a system
that seems to work well, and has resolved one of the major disadvantages to
an angled-eyepiece scope.

Jack Stephens