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You'll probably also want a good inexpensive pair of binoculars. There are pretty good ones in almost every price range, even starting under $100.
Getting your camera to focus through branches on small subjects will be difficult. You'll miss a lot without binocs.
You'll also need to learn the basics of how to use binoculars, if you buy a pair. It's not intuitive. And, that thing they do on TV and in movies is just plain wrong. When the eyepieces are the right distance apart, the images come together, you see a single circle.
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P.S. You should also get a bird book to identify the birds you see. I like paper over phone apps personally, though I have both for North America. My personal recommendation is the Nat Geo book.
http://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Complete-America-Edition/dp/1426213735
We recently bought
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition
and
National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: Now Covering More Than 1,000 Species With the Most-Detailed Information Found in a Single Volume
Off Amazon and I LOVE them! We opted for a Non-Amazon seller and we paid less than $5 each WITH shipping. I am very impressed with the layout, I have found it a pretty fast flip to find a species while looking at it.