If you can use one of the window flat antennas ( $10-$20 on Amazon) for local stations, the Roku or Apple TV will get you a pretty good selection of cable channels and save you money if you have internet.

And clumping can eventually lead to total blockage......get prunes!

Nice looking rig!

Thanks Steve, I might stop by on my way to see grandkids in Ft Worth.

Thanks, that's an option we have been discussing.

Has anyone here had experience with V1 and the 70-300 lens for it? I would like it for birding but hate to put out that much money if lens in not excellent.

Thanks, I was thinking that a rental lens would allow my wife to see if the lens was what she wanted before I spent this much. I hope that I can find one available locally in the Dallas area.

My wife went from a Sony 50X to a Canon 6Ti with the 55 and 300mm kit lenses and would like something to recover some of the reach she has with the Sony. Can anyone suggest a decent lens I could get her for around $1000 to $1500?

Thanks everybody,as soon as I figure out how to load pics I will load some.

Thanks, for several years in the mid 80s I lived in Georgetown. I really loved the area.

I forgot to mention that we are located in the Dallas, TX area and looking forward to picking up many tips.

Hi Yall, I got into digital photography with an Oly I think it was a 480, a 3040,a 5050 an E510 then a Nikon 1V1. along the way I got My wife a ZX1 so she could get her grandbaby Pics, She and I both really liked the C5050 but one of the grand kids knocked it off the table and broke the PASM knob off. Recently she spurged and bought herself a Sony HX400 so she could take hummingbird Pics. After seeing how good she was getting I decided it was time for me to invest in a good 300 or bigger SLR lens so I could get some decent pics. After seeing what a good one would cost, I started looking at the Bridge cameras. Looking at several review site, s I decided on the Nikon P600. Now we spend almost every early morning and evening in the backyard snapping pics of birds I never knew we had in the area.

Or perhaps an old Chevy starter switch. I didn't realize how many of us OLD FARTS are on here. In the 40's cars had a starter button on the dash, now 70 years later they are putting starter buttons on the dash !

Since my wife feeds the birds, we have been getting almost daily visits from this guy. Is it a sharp shinned hawk?

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Colorful bird, sharp pics, thanks for showing.