[birdky] Re: [birdky] Re: [birdky] NYTimes.com: %2��A Treasure in a Tree!%2��: Birders on Their (Expensive) Habit

  • From: Sydney Penner <sfp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:52:40 -0400

I went for many years with a pair for which I believe my father paid circa 15 dollars, until one day my canoe flipped over in the middle of Cayuga Lake and I never saw them again. They were definitely perfectly usable binoculars and I saw a good many life birds with them. That said, I do count the tipped canoe a fortuitous event, since after that my wife agreed to a better pair of binoculars despite our grad student incomes ... and despite her having also been tipped into Cayuga Lake ...

Sydney




On 9/27/21 1:33 PM, Ronan O'Carra wrote:

Birding doesn’t have to be expensive, I went 20 years with a less than 50
dollar pair of bins and didn’t miss anything. It is easy to get expensive
but it shouldn’t be seen as an issue to intimidate those wanting to get in
to birding. No matter what the hobby people are going to go to extremes in
how much money they spend on it. If you have it spend it but don’t look
down on those who don’t have the same gear.
Ronan

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 8:14 AM PRESTON FORSYTHE <pns_for@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

 From The New York Times:


Hope this opens for you

%2��A Treasure in a Tree!%2��: Birders on Their (Expensive) Habit

Six birders on their bird-watching gear: %2��Last year I spent $2,300 on 
Swarovski binoculars. But that wasn%2��t enough.%2��
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/business/a-treasure-in-a-tree-birders-on-their-expensive-habit.html?smid=em-share


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