Hawke Nature-Trek 20-60x80 Spotting Scope

I had been intending to purchase a new spotting scope for bird watching for some time and had been researching the different options within my current price range, I was going round in circles to be honest. The Hawke Nature Trek certainly seemed to tick a lot of boxes, but I wasn't 100%. It was the quality of a pair of Hawke Nature Trek 8 x 32 binoculars that was deciding factor. I purchased a pair for everyday use, but they now seem to have taken precedence to my higher end bins. I was so impressed at the quality and performance of the binoculars that I took the plunge and purchased the spotting scope.The quality of the build it excellent. The 80mm object lens gathers an incredible amount of light, even in fading daylight or during poor visibility. The image is crisp and sharp. I would say that the optimum performance was between 20 and 40 x magnification, but even up to the maximum of 60 x, the performance is still outstanding and you still get a pretty sharp image. In my opinion the scope's is overall performance comparable with many high end spotting scopes, and I say this as someone that previously owned Opticron and Leica scopes.The stay-on case that comes with the scope is a decent quality and offers perfectly adequate protection and does not hinder operation.The warranty offered by Hawke is first class and registration is straight forwardFor under £300 the Hawke Nature Trek Spotting Scope is incredible value for money and it is difficult to find anything negative to say about it.In short I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a decent scope, don't be put off by the relatively low price, this is has really high end spec.

I don't usually give reviews but I'm making an exception for this scope, very nice surprise on opening the package really nice scope very well made brilliant optics easy to use,went bird watching on the north east coast and this scope really came into play only planned to stop a couple of hours but just couldn't stop using it, had some great views of puffins,even had a couple of people asking me about it plus a look through it they were very pleased how it performs..so I would certainly highly recommend this scope..also at the price well pleased.

I bought this after borrowing a friend's scope and it does everything that his more expensive one. The image is clear at all magnifications, the only problem with it is it needs a slight focus change when zooming in. All in all a very good scope for the price which is permanently set up for bird spotting.

Imagine quality with the scope fulling open very good. Like at this price once you start zooming in quality suffers. The scope is light which is good, if you keep the covering on it should protect it. I use for archery which suits my needs.

I'm using this at 300, 500 & 600yrds. Clean optics and perfect depth of field. Really happy with it.

Good optics, handy operation.

Outer box was ripped when opening all the boxes within also had been opened and ripped so was sold a return item at full cost price

Very sturdy and well built. Easy to use. Not too heavy. Like the cover that can be used even when mounted ona tripod . A lovely piece of kit