Abstract: A portable pedestal seat for use by bird watchers, duck hunters, fishermen, or the like, including a seat, and, for supporting the seat, an adjustable pedestal formed of a pair of tubes, the smaller of the tubes being slidably engaged within the other for extending the pedestal for adjusting the height of the seat. The free end of the inner tube is cut on a 45 degree bias and provides a terminal edge surface of such area as to prevent the pedestal seat from sinking into a typical soft ground surface by more than about 18 inches which is enough to support the seat in an upright attitude and to allow for relative ease in removal.