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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 1693717" data-attributes="member: 27039">I was out birding/walking the dog/fooling about in the snow today, and I met another walker, and we started talking and walked along together (why does snow make people very friendly?). Turns out he lives locally, a German, and used to hunt in Germany (not much to hunt here apart from hybrid deer and pheasant). Anyway, we got talking about optics and boots and jackets and all that male-bonding tool-use stuff, and on the way home we popped into his house ´cos he wanted to give me some catalogues about really cool German neoprene-lined welly-boots (this post is going somewhere) and then he got out his.....Zeiss Victory FL 10x56 binos! I´d never seen a pair, they were incredible! So bright, wide, very easy to hold steady, I had an epiphany. (These Swarovisions I´ve ordered had better be bloody good).And on the walk we saw buzzards, lapwings, loads of redwings and fieldfares, flock of bullfinches, and a lone BBH gull sitting in the snow that may have been ill.</blockquote>