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This month’s speaker will be Dr Grainne Cleary, research fellow at Deakin University who will talk about interacting with birds in your backyard. Grainne’s research has been about how people interact with birds and other wildlife in increasingly urbanised environments and the impacts on both birds and people. Where: Ground floor, 60 Leicester St, Carlton. . . . → Read More: BirdLife Public Talk – Melbourne G’day Peter Both apps have been updated to work with the upcoming iOS version 11. On your device go to Settings-General-About-Applications and you can see which (if any) of your apps will cease to work). Cheers Steve Clark Hamilton, Victoria On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Peter Morgan < nagrompr@bigpond.com> wrote: > Further . . . → Read More: ABC News: Apple is about to get rid of your app graveyard for good Further to the discussion some time ago: This report from ABC news prompts the question – are the Morcombe and Pizzey apps going to work with iOS 11? They certainly don’t belong in the graveyard. >>>>> Most Popular: Apple is about to get rid of your app graveyard for good When iOS 11 . . . → Read More: ABC News: Apple is about to get rid of your app graveyard for good Re: Binoculars (Duncan Cape) Duncan, I had the same problem with a pair of Pentax 7x50s that I have owned for 40 years. In my case, it was my eyes that were the culprit. From age 47 onwards, my near focus deteriorated (as it does), and impacted my binocular close focus as well, to the . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 47, Issue 12 Re Zeiss Bins. I and my wife were faithful Zeiss users, of several their top of the range bins for over forty years. The eyepiece fell out of their latest top of the range a few years ago, after some years of sterling service. No one in Sydney could help, I sent them back . . . → Read More: binoculars Hello Stephen, I am reluctant to recommend any particular brand or model of binocular. Especially with expensive ones you should at least look through them before purchase to make sure they suit you. Over the years I have owned or used a wide variety of binoculars from the best to the worst. In a nutshell, . . . → Read More: Zeiss binoculars Not directly bird related – yet – but an interesting article with a couple of named Australians somewhat on the nose. With the realignment of so many birds into new genera one wonders if the same is happening in our neck of the clades… Clive. Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: . . . → Read More: Taxonomic vandalism Does anyone have experience with the various Zeiss bins? My wife has Tetra, and I can’t imagine anything better. However, the online reviews rave about the Victory SF. At 3+ times the cost of the Tetra they would have to be stunning and a real leap in satisfaction. Are they? I could stretch to . . . → Read More: Binoculars If you haven’t seen the news, both species got guernsies the other day. See www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-07/adelaide-zoo-to-help-save-endangered-orange-bellied-parrots/8881522 www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-07/rescue-plan-for-native-bird-after-bushfires-destroyed-habitat/8881712 Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org |
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