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My Binoculars

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

The other day I found some binoculars that I like. They are the 8x42 waterproof, long eye relief, BaK4, multi-coated binoculars by Alpen. They are easy to handle and carry well. They are not red, ...

Binoculars: Is price everything?

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Binoculars are one of the handiest, useful and most widespread of all optical instruments. Virtually everyone who spends time outdoors owns, or needs to own a pair of binoculars. More than 46 million birdwatchers spend ...

Chipping Sparrow General Markings and Characteristics

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Chipping Sparrows are very busy little birds. They rush around chipping away at most anything. They have a small, compact, fairly flat-head and a rather long, notched tail. Their legs are quite short. Mostly they ...

Western Scrub-Jay

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Western Scrub-Jay’s are a beautiful blue bird with a very long blue tail. They are mostly blue on top with some graying. Their underneath side is usually light gray. Most Western Scrub-Jay’s are determined to ...

Red-bellied Woodpecker

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Red-bellied Woodpecker’s have a distinct style of their own. They sometimes are thought of as pests because they like to pick at and make holes in just about anything they think they can make into ...

Killdeer

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Killdeer birds are cute rather plump birds with rather long legs for their little bodies. They like to run in the open ground rather then fly over it. Seem they feel that they will miss ...

Humming Birds

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Humming Birds like to flit around where they can get nectar from feeders or plants with their long straight bills. Folks that have nector rich flowers or colorful feeders in their yards can see Humming ...

House Wren

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

House Wren’s are birds that love to be on the ground. They hop in and around all kinds of shrubbery and forage for food. Because of their varying brown coloration and small size they blend ...

Cedar Waxwing’s

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Cedar Waxwing’s have a beautiful high pitched song. If you have ever heard one you will not forget them. They have a distinctive gray brown coloring and yellowing bellies with a rather large fat bodies. ...

Blue Jay

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Blue Jay's are among our favorite birds here in United States. They capture the imagination of nearly everybody. The Blue Jay has a large presence as a song bird. The Blue Jay's beautiful song is ...

Black-capped Chickadee

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Black-capped Chickadee is a very small bird with a large head. He has a busy habit of darting everywhere. Sometimes it appears to not know what direction to go. But this behavior seems to help ...

Boreal Owl

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Boreal Owl’s are inquisitive and solitary birds. They feel it their duty to rule the forest edges, woodlands, urban and suburban parks and yards in Alaska, Canada, Northern Europe and in the mountains of the ...

Backyard Owl

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

In August this last summer in the late afternoon I took a soda and my binoculars and went to the back porch to relax and watch some wild life. There is always lots of activity ...

How to Attract Birds to Your Yard

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

It is easy to attract birds to your yard by providing a good food feeder, nesting boxes, lots of nesting materials, a good source of water and natural habitat for them to use. These will ...

Parents and Children can Bond by Bird Watching together.

By Roger Johnson · 13 years ago

Binocular Bird Watching is exciting for children and adults. It provides ideal bonding activities for parent and child. Encouraging family adventure. Binocular Bird Watching offers a solution to parents searching for ways to bond with ...

Bet You Can’t Focus My Binoculars

By Roger Johnson · 14 years ago

Dad, Can you focus my binoculars? Most Americans Can’t. Most if not all of us have problems focusing our binoculars, let alone someone else’s. We simply don’t know how to focus binoculars correctly. Don’t despair. ...