Sharpshooter - " in the middle of winter rain " mmmm smiles

Thanks to you as well Larrymc I am looking forward to getting started, but as I mentioned to Sharpshooter waiting for our weather to improve. Really wish I was back in Africa with all its photo opportunity.

sharpshooter - thank you that was most helpful - when our winter (UK) is finally over and the sun is shining strongly I shall get out and about.

Hi there I am a newcomer to photography so please excuse my very evident ignorance. I have a question regarding intelligent Auto or Auto. What can I expect in terms of image quality in the use of this function particularly in the photography of birds? I am about to purchase the new Nikon p900 and would like some advise as I have not yet to learnt how to manually set a camera.