SCOPE IT OUT
etting your first pair of proper binoculars opens up a whole new world – it's like getting glasses when you've been half-blind all your life. But one day you'll end up in a hide with your binos, straining to make out distant, hazy blobs, while the bloke with the scope rattles off a litany of feathery features. Yup, if the birding bug has bitten then the next logical upgrade is