Binoculars for wildlife

Okay what is the animal that is sleeping in the pic? Is it a dog? Is it a fox? Maybe a coyote? One of our dogs?

Actually it is a deer and I took the pic with one of our digital cameras from our bedroom window, no less. Our bedroom window looks out on a hillside and I was close enough to get the pic of this backside view of a bedded dear with the lens on our Panisonic Lumix set at 400 mm focal length, no tripod needed, because I braced the lens against the window.

Some of our neighbors consider deer to pests and some don’t. We’re ones that don’t. Oh, for sure, planting a garden in our neighborhood means also putting in a lot of fencing, but we thoroughly enjoy seeing wildlife in our binoculars and spotting scope. That’s one of the reasons we chose to retire in the north woods, after all.

That’s why Bill and I have binoculars scattered all around the house, just in case something interesting makes an appearance. Most of these binoculars are compact binoculars, but I’ve also been known to leave my larger birding binoculars in a convenient location, too. It’s always been my opinion that a gal can’t have too many binoculars and now that we are living in the north woods, I can prove it.