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Rob Laughton
@bobbiebirder82.bsky.social
Dad, Birder 🐧, Twitcher 📟, Photographer 📸Moth Botherer 🦋. Area Sales manager for Opticron UK 🟢 Bristol City Supporter 🔴⚽️. Views are my own. BOU 519. Founder of ABNG.
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Come along to one of our upcoming Try & Buy events with @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social to shop a range of optics & accessories. We may have that perfect Christmas gift you've been searching for! 🎄

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November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Enjoy nature to the full.

With the superb all new @opticron.bsky.social Natura WA ED 8x42 and 10x42 #binoculars.

Offering a wide field of view, these are the best mid-range binoculars from #Opticron we have seen.

In stock online and instore 🔽
www.birders-store.co.uk/opticron-nat...

#BirdingGear
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New Opticron Tripac - Tripod Harness & Accessory Pack now in all good optics retailers. Available in Black, Brown and Green. SRP £65

www.opticron.co.uk/new-products/
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Dipper
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Looking for a gift for a special nature lover in your life? 🎁

Why not come along to one of our Try & Buy events this week to see our range of binoculars, scopes & accessories and get some friendly, helpful advice from one our optics experts!

@warwickshirewt.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Lammergeier !!!
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Not a bad list of birds up on the Gemmipass this morning!!!
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Wallcreeper!!! Saint-Oyen, Italian Alps
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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This weekend you can find us at the Hampshire Binocular & Telescope Fair with LCE Winchester! We hope to see you there 🌞

@bobbiebirder82.bsky.social
#BirdingGear #UKBirding
April 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Redwing from Hanham this afternoon
February 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
OTD 9 years ago….
January 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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This Saturday, our optics expert Rob will be at the Dorset Wildlife Trust's Wild Chesil Centre with a selection of binoculars and scopes for you to try and buy 🦆

#UKBirding #BirdingGear
January 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Finally made it over here as sick of my birding twitter being full of Reform UK! Please feel free to re...post (?) this so I can find some fellow Bristol/SW birders 👍👍
January 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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If you're visiting us here in #Worcester allow extra time to see this stunning male Black Redstart in the city centre.

Originally found on the Cathedral in November, more recently he has frequented both All Saints Church and St. Andrew's Spire.

#WorcsBirds #UKBirding
January 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
3 new life birds in 2024. Yellow Warbler, Scarlet Tanager & Pale legged Leaf Warbler. Not as many as in 2023 but that was a bumper year nowadays. Quality over quantity.
December 31, 2024 at 11:19 PM
So my local 10km list ends on a record 119 species, beating the previous by 23! Let’s see what we can do next year but it will be a hard total to beat! #UKBirding
December 31, 2024 at 6:22 PM
My retinas are still recovering - Yellow Warbler - New Hythe, Kent 27th Dec. 9th Record for the UK and only the second mainland record. #UKBirding
December 28, 2024 at 2:44 PM
My third lifer of the year. The stunning American Yellow Warbler at New Hythe in Kent. #UKBirding
December 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I went back with a camera. Siberian Chiffchaff - Compton Dando. #UKBirding
December 24, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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@billyheaney.bsky.social recently embarked on a trip to Norway with the Opticron Verano BGA VHD 10x50 🐋

Their wide FOV, ED glass and VHD multi-coated optical system means they're perfect for observing wildlife in low light and they're on sale now:

8x42 were £429 NOW £379
10x50 were £449 NOW £399
December 23, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Today’s Siberian Chiffchaff from Compton Dando Sewage Works. Also 3+ Colybitta. #UKBirding
December 23, 2024 at 4:22 PM
The local 10km list now up to 119 species with the addition of Hawfinch and a surprising find of a Sibe Chiffchaff this afternoon. #UKBirding
December 23, 2024 at 1:55 PM
This mornings Yellow browed Warbler at Eastville Park in Bristol makes it 116 species for my 2024 10km list. #UKBirding
December 8, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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When you purchase one of our scopes with an SDL, HR3 or MM3 zoom eyepiece you'll receive a FREE USM-2 Smart Phone Mount worth £79!

This offer applies to all new MM3 and MM4 scope purchases made through our website and from authorised UK dealers only. Offer ends 31/01/2025.

#BirdingGear #UKBirding
December 2, 2024 at 3:33 PM