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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1376764" data-attributes="member: 12449">Not really necessary, the hides at Ra's al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary are equipped with Leica scopes for birder use (!) and at the Pivot Fields, so long as you stay to the established tracks around the field edges, you can take your car in and slowly drive round - the birds are close. A scope could be useful for pipits if you want to check the further off ones, but to be honest I think I did not use my scope there.The only place that would be good would be the dreamland flats, though even there you'll be able to see most stuff without a scope without problem ...but if you want to scope the Bar-tailed Godwit flocks, some of which may be distant, you could need a scope to find the Great Knot (which do not stick out like a sore thumb!). Not bad a scope at Ghantoot too - as you view from the gates usually and some stuff is more distant (there is a Sociable Plover there too).So in brief, for Dubai itself, no need, but for sites further afield (Dreamland and Ghantoot) not bad to have.</blockquote>