Reg,
Here are a few points to consider before buying. You may know of these but here they are for what they are worth.
Don't go to a high street shop in the first instance - they do not have the viewing facilities - you will have to escorted outside with an assistant and one scope and by the time another is set up you will have forgotten what the first was like. Go to a specialist shop first but don't necessarily buy from there.
Decide if you want an angled scope or a straight.
Decide if you want a fixed magnification or a zoom. 32x is a middle of the road fixed. For general watching a fixed is OK but if you want to do things like reading plastics rings etc, a zoom is needed.
Decide if you can afford the more expensive florite glass - give a brighter image especially on dull days. (Try to choose a dull day for viewing - the dullness of the day sorts the men from the boys so to speak).
When you have decided what you want seach the magazines and even the internet for a good price. Beware of 'grey' imports. These are NOT fakes but have been imported by dealers who are not official dealers of that particular make. The problem comes when things go wrong (unlikely with a scope unless you drop it but more likely with, say, cameras with lots of electonics etc.) Then, the dealer will have to send it off, often overseas and you may be without it for weeks whereas with an official dealer, the problem may be fixed on the spot or maybe have to be sent only to a local repairer.
The bottom line is have a look through as many as you can. I endorse what others have said - you will find one which suits your eyes. I have a Kowa 824, now superceded. I found this better to my eyes than more expensive scopes which although very good I considered to be awful in terms of value for money but that was just my eyes.
One final tip. Once you have got your scope try to keep the eye, that you are not using to look through it, open. If you close your other eye and spend lots of time observing, you will find that you will get an ache from the muscles around that eye and for a while you may even find this eye twitching a bit. It may seem to other people that you are winking at them!!! Just thought - maybe a good thing for pulling, on the other hand, might get my face slapped!!!!!
Hope this helps
Colin