Lightweight Birding Scope.

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I have a Swarovski ATX 85mm spotting scope. It's brilliant at what it does, but it's large & heavy, and I struggle to carry it around due to my health issues. I've decided that I need a smaller lighter scope, with less magnification, that I can easily carry either a back pack or over my sholder.

To give you an example, today I was at Langford Lakes, and even on the widest magnification a Little Ringed Plover was filling the frame, and every time it moved I had to adjust & refocus. I'd like something that gives me better magnificaton than my 10x42 bins, but lighter & more practical than my ATX system.

Any suggestions from the birding crowd?
 
It might also be worth looking at image stabilised binoculars too, while on Mull, someone has a Kite optics pair and I was very impressed, with image stabilised you could look at higher magnification and still handhold.
 
I suggest checking out the Opticron MM4 50 GA ED
 
Be careful , Lightweight normally means plastic optics .
 
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