The Vintage Birder

This is a scope I have been after for many years now. It was a very popular spotting scope with twitchers and birders during the late 1980’s and through the 90's.   A very well built and quality product. The TSN 2 was the straight version, and came in two colours the green as bove and a pale beige grey. The fluorite lensed TSN 3 / 4 would follow later. Here being used by a Selsey birder the TSN 2 straight version  This is from the Kowa Optics History  Released in 1984 (TSN-1, TSN-2) ReleasedThe motivation behind the development of the TSN (telescope new) scopes was "to create spotting scopes that had the world's best viewing characteristics". These scopes utilized all the knowledge that had been gathered from years of innovative design and development. The results were the TSN 1 and 2 models which included objective lenses that were larger than the 50mm and 60mm objective diameters of the TS line. The new products were named TSN (TeleScope New) and were the first ...

Saturday 29th April 2023. Today I thought I'd try out the  Swift Audubon's 8.5x44  and the  Mirador 1560 15-60x60 spotting scope  c/w a very sturdy  Slik D3 Tripod  all from the 1980's. To Blashford Lakes which was surprisingly quiet considering it was a bank holiday weekend.  The good old reliable Swift Audubon's still good by today’s standards Mirador 1560 15-60 x 60 c/w the Slik D3 Tripod  It's like going back to the 1980’s  Full extended at the mound I also picked up some more books, two from Blashford and one from Oxfam Shaftesbury. Dream Island by R. M. Lockley  (middle)  mainly about Skokholm from Oxfam the outside two from Blashford.