A comprehensive guide to tell you how to use binoculars for bird watching. Learn how to hold your binoculars, focus your binoculars and find the bird through the eyepieces so as to enhance your bird watching hobby.

Birdwatching binoculars, hunting binoculars, astronomy binoculars, marine binoculars...all have combinations of factors that make them best suited for their particular activity. One size does not necessarily fit all. But what goes into the design of binoculars? The variables in question include the lens/prism configuration, magnification, lens diameter, and field of view.

Sometimes it is easier or better to use a spotting scope than a pair of binoculars or a telescope. A spotting scope is easier to carry than a telescope and provides for more magnification than binoculars. Here are some suggestions on using a spotting scope properly: