I took my Celestron Ultima 6.5x32mm Porro binocular down to the Scappoose bottomlands this afternoon. Wood Ducks, Green-winged Teal, and other ducks were plentiful, and the Yellow-rumped Warblers were easy to follow in flight thanks to the Ultima 6.5’s very wide field of view.
As both an avid reader and natural history enthusiast, I am almost never without a book, and a binocular or monocular whenever I’m away from home. With these, wherever I happen to be, no time is ever wasted for rational recreation is always ready-at-hand.
The Celestron Ultima 6.5x32mm Porro – one of my absolute favorite binoculars. Small and light with an extraordinary depth of field and a very wide field of view. Learn more about it at the Celestron website.
When it comes to astronomy, let’s just say that I’m still learning. I’ve made some good progress with the Moon, and I’m learning to identify the brightest stars, but when it comes to anything much more complex than that – variable stars, nebulae, deep anything – I’m, as they say, “not quite there yet.”