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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rui_Caratão" data-source="post: 2971541" data-attributes="member: 80272">70x as your only one mag/eyepiece is not suitable for birding whatever you use your spotting scope or binoscope, they are only used to come close certain bird carachteristics or to klinch an ID that is too far away, most of times you are good with20x or 30x.Whatever the instrument used it is allways a complement to your low mag bins if your final goal is birding or hunting. Shorebird observation, birding from hides are the exception to the rule and you may get good results with a sturdy tripod and fork, even with flying subjects it is possible to achieve good results, I realized that last summer  at Sagres Raptor counts when  using the 45x hudge FOV and depth of field of a Zeiss Photoscope....it was unbeliveble the ease that you follow and focused raptors and storks flying just over you at no more than 150mt :clap: Now   imagine yourself using both eyes !!! and 2 12.5mm Docter UWA............:eek!:</blockquote>