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As an active member of the Audubon Society, I take part in regular group meetings near my home in Michigan. There are a number of exciting functions associated with the club, but none compare with our biannual bird counts. One count takes place just before Christmas, when many of the more colorful songbirds have migrated south. We dutifully pile into our cars and mark down all the birds we see through the snow. But the most fruitful count takes place just after the Fourth of July.

For this year’s summer count, I packed up a trusty pair of Magnacraft binoculars and set out for a local river. I parked my car and took a seat on the river bank. Several minutes passed uneventfully as I scanned the length of the river for activity. Suddenly, there it was: a male bufflehead duck. These birds are extremely rare in my area, but the high-powered glasses helped me to make a positive identification.

Tags: Binoculars, bird watching binoculars, Magnacraft binoculars