There has been a lot of excitement around the Eagle Optics store since a little celebrity showed up 8 days ago. The Golden-Crowned Sparrow visiting the feeding station outside the store’s front window normally winters in the Pacific Northwest, and is a seldom-seen visitor in this part of the country. How seldom? [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Birding’
How do I properly set the diopter on my binoculars?
Most of today’s binoculars will allow you to separately adjust the focus on one eye (usually the right eye) with a diopter. This is done to compensate for differences between your eyes so you see the clearest image possible through your binoculars.
To make the diopter adjustment, pick a distinctive object to focus on that is [...]
Optics: The Can’t-Go-Wrong Gift
As part of the sales team at Eagle Optics I’m always tickled when a person calls to buy a binocular for a gift. There isn’t a better gift to give than optics. Is there? I mean, optics cross all age, race, and gender barriers. I’ve helped people choose a binocular as a gift for graduation, [...]
New Field Guide!
This month Don & Lillian Stokes will release The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America. With 3400 photographs covering 854 species, it will be one of the most comprehensive and informational field guides available to birders. In fact, it’s the first North American guide to cover all subspecies. Thumbing through an advance [...]
Swarovski CT Travel Carbon Tripod with DH 101 Head
When planning an outdoor adventure, we concern ourselves with variables: timing, destination, equipment, and everything in between. We scour the weather forecast. Make a checklist. Add this sweet Swarovski travel tripod kit to your list’s optics column, and there will be one less uncertainty; one less worry.
This tripod kit could easily be [...]
Atlas Optics Intrepid ED 8×42
The gang here at Eagle Optics rolled out the red carpet recently for a shipment of this binocular which had been out of stock for awhile. Why the celebrity treatment, you may ask? Quite simply, we have long known this bin can Stand and Deliver. It is our customers, though, whose feedback [...]
Nina Learns Digiscoping (and enjoys a little beginner’s luck)
Last week I had my very first experience with digiscoping, and I can easily see how one becomes addicted to this fascinating hobby. As my coworker Mike showed me, digiscoping is taking photographs using a digital camera and a spotting scope. While I have long admired Mike’s exquisite photographs ( he has 8 [...]
About Waterproofing & Fogproofing
Waterproof binoculars and spotting scopes are sealed internally with O-rings to prevent moisture, dust, and debris from compromising the inside of the instrument. Fogproofing means that the optical barrel (or barrels in the case of a binocular) is filled with nitrogen or argon gas to prevent internal fogging caused when subjecting the optic to temperature [...]
On Nests!
Nina’s special find: a horsehair nest!
It’s the beginning of June and nesting season is well underway. Our feathered friends may be seen busily selecting their prime spot, gathering materials, and doing their magic to create the sacred place where their eggs will be laid and their young raised. Many species have already fledged [...]
Good Camera for Digiscoping!
I’ve been receiving very positive feedback from a number of customers who are using the Canon S90 for digiscoping. While Canon doesn’t make an accessory adapter to bring it out to a convenient filter thread to support Swarovski’s DCA or Kowa’s DA1 adapters, the S90 will mount to bracket/platform adapters like the Swarovski UCA [...]
