Hi Bird Folks, I appreciate very much being on this active and helpful chatline. I am really struggling trying to learn how to be a Birder. So far it has been mostly frustrating. So I finally decided if I took a photo of the bird I was looking at I could find it in the books when I got home. I am really ignorant about birds but sincerely want to learn. Please advise me if you have experience with the camera that I have purchased and is coming soon. It is: a Konica Minolta Dimage Z6 6MP Digital Camera with 12x Anti-Shake Zoom Hopefully, the 12X will be able to make close-up pics that I can improve my identifications. sincerely, joe d phillips columbus, ohio Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1808 - Release Date: 11/23/2008 6:59 PM ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]