Hi,i have one eye and wondered if a scope is the way to go?Your thoughts please.My wife sometimes comes along on trips and so i was wondering if i should consider her (I know, i know ).
Ps i am fairly new to this so please be gentle.
regards
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Hi bitternboy,
A good pair of binoculars is still your best starting point, easy to buy, easy to hold and point, easy to share and easy to carry. A monocular would also serve, but they are harder to hold and point and no less expensive.
Scopes are fundamentally bad designs imho, because they need a clunky tripod and head to be useful, so anything involving a scope is automatically an expedition. In addition, scopes are primarily useful for looking at birds on the water or on the ground, because the narrow field of view makes it hopeless to try to follow a flitting warbler even if it were not in the treetops.