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From: gls@hare.udev.cdc.com (gl sprandel x4707)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: OUTDOORS: MN, CO, Re: Binocs, crows
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Date: 2 Dec 89 01:26:01 GMT
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 Re: Binoculars 
  One thing to be aware of if whether the person your buying the 
  binoculars for wears glasses or not.  If they do wear glasses you
  want to find binocs with  long eye relief. A long eye relief
  means you can use the binocs with the glasses on.  I have the Nikon 7x35 E
  and have good luck with them with my glasses.  I have tried  Leitz 
  compacts with my glasses without much luck.
  As as aside does anyone know which spotting scope has the longest 
  eye relief?
 Re: Crows and hawks 
  I occasionally see crows mobbing hawks, and more often mobbing
  great-horned owls. If I hear a mob (? or is that gang?) of crows I 
  try to run and see what the ruckus is -- this is a good way to find owls. 
 Re: Thanksgiving 
  I had the good fortune of being in the Colorado mountains,79degreesF,
  mainly  baby-sitting but did see White-breasted and Pygmy nuthatches, Stellars
  Jays, Clarks nutcrackers, ravens, Magpies, siskens and purple finches .
  If anyone knows good birding spots near Denver or Ft Collins I would 
  be interested in them, since I occasionanly get back to CO.
 Minnesota:Re Gulls
  Colder now. White wing crossbills continuing southward all the 
  way into Iowa. Also Oldsquaws seen in lake Superiour, and  a Glaucous and
  Thayers gull here in town.
 Re: Bird books 
  The national geographic book is nice because it at least tries to picture
  the immature or fall plumage Are the pictures any better in the 2nd edition? 
 Gary - 
 ps. Thanks for the posting about birds in warm places (CA, FLA) as winter
   approaches  in MN I bird less (and work more). 
 
Gary Sprandel  gls@hare.udev.cdc.com      Telephone <612> 482-4707
Control Data Corporation ARH254, 4201 N. Lexington, Arden Hill MN, 55126 USA


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