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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

10,000 Birds

ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side. (I

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Birding Chaco at JV Gonzles – Trip Report

10,000 Birds

This dirt road was the soybean truck-nightmare; about every 10 minutes we had large double-trailer trucks filled with soybeans drive very fast and raise a huge dust cloud that took another 5 minutes to settle. We had been birding the north-west side of Argentina for 7 days and drove more than 3,000 km. Brown Cachalote.

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