Jim - I'm in a similar situation, on the coast north of Boston in Mass. with lots of light pollution from the city. those black-backed bulls can be nasty beasts - I was on a winter outing at the beach last year with a group of 20 birders and we all watched a Black-backed gull slowly kill some cute little seabird out in the waves - I think it was a razorbill? Everyone was horrified! Most of us had never seen anything like that - it just seemed mean. You expect that from Bald eagles but gulls? I thought they just begged for potato chips 
I do think everyone's physiology is different and suited best by different optics. I briefly had a 10x50 Ultravid HD and it was excellent for astronomy, very little CA on the moon, I think it's one of the better UVHDs for color correction.
I do think everyone's physiology is different and suited best by different optics. I briefly had a 10x50 Ultravid HD and it was excellent for astronomy, very little CA on the moon, I think it's one of the better UVHDs for color correction.