Televue 85 vs Zeiss Diascope 85

Please forgive my stupidity but I am new to birding. I have a Televue 85 that I have been trying to use for terrestrial as well as a little astronomy. It seems like it would be a real hassle to take the Televue out into the field to do bird watching. I was thinking of trying to trade for a Zeiss Diascope 85 which seems like a more portable scope. Like I said, I am new, and would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,
Bob

Clearly the Televue 85 is not an ideal field scope, due to its length, weight and lack of weatherproofing. But, from all I hear, it's a wonderful portable astronomical scope, and it can be used as a birding scope, for good weather days, when you'll be using high power to look at targets relatively far away.

Perhaps you might think about keeping the scope, and eventually complementing it with a similar but smaller waterproof angled spotting scope, such as the Leica 62, Zeiss 65 or Swarovski 65, perhaps even the Nikon 60. Note that at least the Zeiss and Swarovski offer ocular adapters such that for higher powers, you could utilze one or more of your 1.25" telescope oculars, otherwise using a 30-32X eyepiece as the primary eyepiece.