Comments on: Cool Non Leather Binocular Harness

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:22:04 +0000

It has been fine since I left my comment. I assumed NBB fixed it. At least he should take credit for it.

By: Birdchick

Birdchick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:37:26 +0000

NBB has looked into it. I’m able to access it on my Blackberry and we’ve had a friend with an iPhone be able to get to it. Are you still having a problem? Anyone else having a problem with an iPhone?

By: Birdchick

Birdchick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:34:52 +0000

@sfmary,

I haven’t had a heat issue with the leather patch on my leather patch harness…I hope your traveling isn’t over for good.

By: Birdchick

Birdchick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:30:55 +0000

@lehman, you bring up an interesting point and I have many vegetarian and a few vegan friends. You mention that you don’t see how a birder can eat meat. I was vegetarian for two years. One day, I was feeding a peregrine falcon a rat while she was perched on my glove. She went for the darkest, reddest bits of meat and made it look so good. I drove out and bought some bacon as soon as she was finished–if a peregrine can have meat, so can I!

But, there’s a big difference in how a wild bird gets its meat compared to how most of us do–I’ve yet to kill any of my own meat with my toes. But I do eat meat and try to make the conscious effort to purchase it locally and from ranchers who engage in good land management practices. I could never be vegan and admire those who can. I’m a cheese junkie and if I were vegan, I could not keep bees.

By: Lehman

Lehman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:34:24 +0000

Thnx birdchick, as a vegan I looked for a non-leather but settled on a leather patch because the bino harness works great with my huge camera bag. I don’t see how bird watchers can eat poultry. Eating meat is very bad for the environment too. 90 % of the big fish are gone from our oceans

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:16:08 +0000

Are you and NBB aware that the mobile version of the blog is not appearing? Once I went to the comments page it did convert to mobile. But the main page is not mobile and as a result takes forever to load on my iPhone.

By: sfmarty

sfmarty — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:51:50 +0000

I didn’t use one because the leather part looked like it would be hot in the jungles. The o ring looks pretty good.

Alas, my long treks in hot areas may be over.

By: Roy H

Roy H — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:09:30 +0000

Another advantage of a harness, at least of the ones I have seen, is that they hold the bins closer to your body if you bend over, instead of them dangling way out there and getting in the way (or worse, into something messy).

On the other hand you can’t slip your bins under your jacket with a harness.

I usually carry a bag with the strap across by body to the opposite shoulder and I can’t see how that would work with a harness, especially since it comes off every time I get in the car.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:13:04 +0000

Another advantage to a bino harness, on top of all the ones you note: it has a fantastically slimming effect on the wearer! I suspect most hard-core birders in the field look about 10 pounds lighter than they actually are–what’s not to like?