Tom Foote wrote:

> BUT BUT BUT if you want to get
> up "close and personal" and see all the detail in the
> feathers, in as true color as possible then you need
> really good glass.. like the time I got a Violet Green
> Swallow in my bins at about 30 feet at high noon in
> brilliant sun light...obviously, not a question of ID

I agree 100%!!

I should have clarified my statement a little better. I have been working on
Loong distance ID and then getting closer or using the scope to see if I was
right or wrong. I guess that is why I was locked into the ID aspect and not
the detail.

Sometimes we study a bird at our feeder with the binoculars and the birds are
only ten feet outside the window. It is almost like a bird in hand. Awesome!

Thanks Tom, for pointing out the importance of the detail aspect of birding.

Jerry Converse
Grand Coulee, WA

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