Re: First time birding

> On 18/01/2023 04:45 Alan C wrote: > > > Common all over South Africa too, even in remote camps of the Kruger > Park. The ones here escaped from a sailing sip en-route to Aus. Can't > imagine why they were being taken there. > They were a common pet, being easy to feed and otherwise look

Re: First time birding

> On 17/01/2023 22:46 ann sanfedele wrote: > > > On this side of the pond people are more apt to say someone  is "a > Brit'  these days rather than he (or she) is  English  - it's somewhat > generational > I guess.  Still today if someone enquires about my ethnicity I respond  > with "Engli

Re: First time birding

Common all over South Africa too, even in remote camps of the Kruger Park. The ones here escaped from a sailing sip en-route to Aus. Can't imagine why they were being taken there. Alan C On 18-Jan-23 12:20 AM, mike wilson wrote: I called it British because it is found all over the British Isl

Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

since I already have nearly a complete set of "K" primes my recent acqusition of of thr K1 was the final nail in the cofffin asfar as my pentax collection goes. jco -Original Message- From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Sent: Jan 15, 2023 12:14 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: What

Re: First time birding

Ha!!  I don't feel bad , Dan  I love being Ann Sanfedele.. I purposefully did not to back to my maiden name when we divorced. .. BTW my spell checker keeps wanting me to changer your name to MAYORALITY ...  :-) ann On 1/17/2023 7:43 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Don 't feel bad, Ann. You wo

Re: Something weird

John, Your description of the problem seems eerily similar to what happened on my old Mac Mini when the I/o controller chip began to draw its last breaths. The repair was getting a new Mac Mini. I never could recover most of the full-size images (I had erased the cards). Rick > On Jan 16, 202

Re: First time birding

Don 't feel bad, Ann. You would be surprised to know how many people assume I am Italian -- even Italian-Americans! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 5:47 PM ann sanfedele wrote: > On this side of the pond peop

Re: First time birding

On this side of the pond people are more apt to say someone  is "a Brit'  these days rather than he (or she) is  English  - it's somewhat generational I guess.  Still today if someone enquires about my ethnicity I respond  with "English, German and Scotch-Irish" . But of course now it is conside

Re: First time birding

I called it British because it is found all over the British Isles, even on some of the more isolated islands. The _really_ isolated places have their own subspecies'. Once one of the top three common birds in towns and suburbia, the population there has crashed for unknown reasons by about 90

Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

> On Jan 17, 2023, at 11:51 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: > > For the … > > 6x7, I’m staying with just one lens. The 67 165mm. Don’t really need another > there. Dreaming of a 67 M\* 300, but only dreaming. > > K-1 II, I have the FA28/1.8, F50/1.7, and F\* 300/4.5. Might be nice to have

Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

The 150/3.5 is a sleeper. Bill On Tue., Jan. 17, 2023, 1:51 p.m. , wrote: > For the … > > 6x7, I’m staying with just one lens. The 67 165mm. Don’t really need > another there. Dreaming of a 67 M\* 300, but only dreaming. > > K-1 II, I have the FA28/1.8, F50/1.7, and F\* 300/4.5. Might be nice t

Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

For the … 6x7, I’m staying with just one lens. The 67 165mm. Don’t really need another there. Dreaming of a 67 M\* 300, but only dreaming. K-1 II, I have the FA28/1.8, F50/1.7, and F\* 300/4.5. Might be nice to have the FA24/2. Really mixed on LTD lenses. The 43/1.0 resolution is nice but the