FCC registrations have a confidentiality period.I also dug a little around with A.I. regarding the R8 Mark II.
The patent DS126947, which is rumored to be the R8II was registered April 15, 2026. Given a standard 6-month confidentiality expiry, it might point to a release date in October. Which lines up with the usual release cycles of Canon - during Summer its always quiet.
So, a few more months to wait.
Easy, just learn this by the end of the day: https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/The ornithologists usually know the scientific names of the birds (for sure the names in the group of birds in which they specialize...). The problem with the common names is that they are frequently ambiguous. For one who doesn't have the English as a primary language it makes a kind of burden: So many times I have to search in the Internet via the Latin name in order to recover the common name (in English!) in my memory (old man...). Many times the common name in English is popping up before I can recover the scientific name (go figure it
Never mind! Today the clouds above the mountain were looking pretty hostile and I went to my favorite Botanical garden - to check if the gardeners are still keeping the barriers around the nest of the Japanese White-eye and how the birds are doing. Surprisingly for a fraction of the second I noticed a hatched bird trying to get food from the arrived parent (I missed the exact moment!!!). It seems I (we) can see fledglings in 10-14 days!
After that White-rumped Shama and Red-whiskered Bulbul.
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Caesar referred to the Gauls, not the Brits, as Celts in the first sentence of De Bello Gallico: ”Gaul is a whole divided into three parts, one of which is inhabited by the Belgae, another by the Aquitani, and a third by a people called in their own tongue Celtae, in the Latin Galli.” Gaul was in Continental Europe. The Welsh and the Scots are modern day Celts, linguistically, not the English. I recall Asterix the French Gaul visiting England once when he admired our lawns and tea drinking. He would send Obelix over to deal with you if you called him a Brit. The Welsh and the Scots would do the equivalent if you have the gall to call the English "Celts". Charles de Gaulle must be turning in his grave.Caesar himself did say something in his opening paragraph about you Celts wanting everything in your own language
