10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Testing the BTX at Vlasina Lake, South-east Serbia (note the forehead rest and finder) As an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer I am quite familiar with binoviewers and employ them frequently for visual work with telescopes. BTX mounted on PTH tripod head at Beljarica, Serbia Now enough with all the praise and good stuff.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Being fully inoculated with AstraZeneca, I understood that with a digital vaccination certificate, I do not need any further tests to enter Costa Rica – something to recheck again!! Update: with the vaccination certificate, I need no testing. Update: true. I planned to buy it at some airport, but that didn’t happen.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When I saw the NL Pure in a webinar for the first time, immediately – before the webinar ended, I asked my Swarovski sales rep for a pair to test. I kept them in my backpack until yesterday, didn’t want to hold them, to get any impressions… I wanted to test them as a tabula rasa (a clean slate). And today I did.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2016

The morning I first tested them was filled with migrating flocks of European Bee-eaters and their constant bubbling voices. A few weeks later, I was guiding a EuroBirdwatch event in Belgrade, Serbia. And all the time I was testing the CLs, I was wondering what the difference was between them and their big brother, the ELs.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2022

First, that new pair of bins for testing arrived, of which you will be reading in a due time, and two days later, the Global Big Day. While my Big Day was already over by mid-afternoon, it did help my mood and provided a lot of opportunities to test the new binoculars. And then things got a bit faster. Where to go?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

My best bird of the weekend was a Great Black-backed Gull , a rarity in a land-locked Serbia, with less than 10 observations so far. Before I acquired my own Swarovski binoculars, I had the chance to test both ELs and CLs for months at a time and so, from my own experience I knew what level of quality this brand guarantees.

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