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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3002749" data-attributes="member: 109211">Hi FlorianI think the Conquest will be staying with me, but you probably had guessed that already.We hire cottages to stay in when we holiday in Scotland and all three of our favourite cottages have superb views over the sea. Putting the Conquest on a tripod and having it readily available to check out gulls, divers, ducks, waders, not to mention whales and dolphins and otters, will be tremendous.Off the west coast of North Uist, there is often a passage of sea birds flying south or north depending on the time of year and they are just out of range when you only have 8x magnification. Setting up on a tripod and watching for these skuas (jaegers), shearwaters and petrels etc sounds good to me and of course the otters and greenshanks and turnstones and oystercatchers that land nearby would be lovely to see in 15x close up.They are also surprisingly useful when hand-held. I can certainly imagine carrying them for special purposes to use just in the hand (to look at a Peregrine nest-site or watch for the activity at an Otter holt for example. Of course they are not for carrying everyday, although maybe Henry would :king:Lee</blockquote>