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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3457003" data-attributes="member: 109211">Because of the number of times we go to the Western Isles we have got to know the usual bird species rather well, or so we thought.A couple of years ago there was a guy on the ferry to Lochmaddy with a battered pair of Dialyt 7x42's announcing what species distant specs were while they still looked like particles of dust on our bins' objectives. He was right every time.I suspect that experience was behind his identification accuracy rather than his old Zeiss bins, but if his bins were the cover and he was the book, it was another case of don't judge the one by the impression given by the other.Anyone who judges another nature observer's expertise by his/her kit is immature to say the least.Lee</blockquote>