>Another option, rather than a spotter,
>would be a set of
>15x binos on a tripod.
> I find looking through
>them more comfortable than with
>one eye through a spotter.
>
I completely agree. I have a set of EL's and I also had a Swaro 80HD. Dont get me wrong the 80HD was awesome, but I used the EL's CONSIDERABLY more then the spotting scope. I acutally sold it a few months back becuase I did not use is as much as I thought and it strains your eyes after looking through them for 4 or 5 hours. The other problem, or at least I found, was you find animals considerably farther than you think. I was hunting in NM for elk in the Gila and I found some toads that looked like a reasonalbe distance to find out that it was 7 to 8 miles away (one way). Just my 2 cents.....