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"Weird photo size" is the only photo that seems to show up.
10 months agoOh, good. It’s the same camera. I was getting zoom envy, but I feel better now.
10 months agoSteve here. It's after 6, so I must have been woken up! Dodie was mostly wrong about 40x, since we truly have the same 30x camera as you. But that is optical zoom. The camera and it's manual are so complex, and obtuse, that I can not say what the digital limit is and what activates it. My old Nikon had a graphic with the zoom that showed when you had entered digital range. Ok, ok, so does this one ...but it varies between iA and P modes and the scales are demarcated in mm not times. In iA the range is 24 to 2936 and in P it's 24 to 5872, and the graphic has a blue bit on the end, denoting digital I assume, but in P mode there is a turquoise and a blue bit. So far none of the numbers I see divide out to 30, or any other even numbers. Conclusion, who knows, who can ever know, when Dodie is right or wrong! Default assumption, says she on reading this, she's always right.
10 months agoPink color is due to eating algae and shrimp which also eat it. The algae contain a carotenoid pigment. You may have noticed in other journals across desert areas how the salt lakes are often pink (like himalayan salt you can buy).
https://reidparkzoo.org/blog/what-makes-flamingos-pink/#:~:text=Flamingos%20and%20shrimp%20are%20actually,contribute%20to%20their%20fabulous%20pinkness.
See? I actually remember some of my 1969 Ornithology! Hardest part was selecting a good website as a source.
This is Dodie here. Is the camera not 40x? I guess maybe it is ?30x but I will check with Steve in an hour or so when I wake him up.
10 months ago40X? What’s your camera? I thought you had the same one I’m using.
10 months agoMight be 600000 mxn pesos, but anyway Paradise ain't cheap kiddo.
10 months ago600k for the concrete “paradise” seems pretty steep eh
10 months agoMost appropriate. They are so sweet!
10 months agoWill do, but these guys were so far away that we did not even know what they were until we reviewed the photos. 40x zoom is so great.
10 months agoI call these guys “candy bananas”!
10 months agoIf you see any more avocets, watch for their characteristic scything motion as they sweep their bills side to side.
10 months agoWe were quite overwhelmed by the numbers and diversity of the birds we saw today. What are those flamingos eating? It must be the right stuff because their colouration is so intense.
10 months agoIncredible array of birds! And those flamingos are the most colorful I have seen!
10 months ago
Right. I was just going to point this out too. Steve, if you can you might try deleting this photo and reposting.
10 months ago