: a lightweight portable telescope that is usually mounted on a tripod and used for viewing wildlife and terrestrial objects and features
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Recent Examples on the WebThat pack only provides 31 liters of interior volume (along with a six-liter external pocket designed to accept a spotting scope). Wes Siler, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2020 Park safely off the road, stroll up to a group clustered around a spotting scope, and ask polite questions. Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2019 That afternoon, workers from a cheese-processing plant in Utah played with a spotting scope—a device that can detect sheds from hundreds of yards away.The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022 Don’t want to spring for a $400 spotting scope or a $1,000 telephoto camera lens? Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2019 Before Visiting Bring a spotting scope, or at least some good binoculars. Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2019 Special agents found a loaded magazine on Merryman and a spotting scope in his backpack.Fox News, 31 Jan. 2022 Merryman didn’t have a weapon but was carrying ammunition and a spotting scope in his backpack when agents found him in a restaurant’s parking lot in Hagerstown on Wednesday. Michael Kunzelman, baltimoresun.com, 31 Jan. 2022 Use a spotting scope, binoculars or a telephoto lens and be content to watch from a safe distance. Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2021 See More