Excellent! It's a while since I've seen one - might have to try and rectify that soon.

Compared to the weights of other Swarovski 65mm scopes, this seems around the same weight as the ATS and a bit less than the ATX.

Does that include the lens Steve? The weights for the Swarovski's are for the whole package. From what I can tell, the APO 65 with a lens is 1545g.

1300g for the 55 and 1470g for the 65.

Some thoughts from Blood Sausage in 1993.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPH...

theonion.com/u-s-continue...

Very much so. I wonder what the increasing restriction of once common species to nature reserves says about conservation more generally. Even if they're doing well on the reserves, it suggests that conservation more generally is not succeeding.

You make a fair point about the disappearance of breeding Lapwing, Andrew. The thinning out of the breeding distribution has meant that they have ceased to be a 'local' bird for many.
This was a sad blog to write:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/2...
#ornithology

The Twite of divers...😜

I don't keep track of them but there seems to be one here a lot of the time. Not sure why nowhere can fix them on the west coast!

They're here pretty frequently, I presume being fixed. Saw this one come in yesterday.

It's definitely up there. The call plus the places where they live is a winning combination.