Best Binoculars for Birdwatching: What I Learned Buying Three Pairs

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500

The first bird I ever stopped a round to look at was a wood thrush on the fourteenth hole at a course outside Traverse City in late September, about four years ago. I didn’t know it was a wood thrush at the time. I knew it was something I hadn’t paid attention to before, which was almost every bird, and that it was sitting on the cart path with a spotted breast and a posture that read, even from forty yards, as completely indifferent to my presence.

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Best Binoculars for Birdwatching: What I Learned Buying Three Pairs