Left Handed wrote: "Btw I totally agree with leeneia about film-newer cameras are so overloaded with functions you usually have to flip three or four menus / buttons before you take a photo - by then the bird has migrated across the county. With the old film cameras it was a quick snap and you were done."

I don't agree with that, there is a steep learning curve with some of these digital cameras and all those features can be intimidating but once you get your settings right you can just turn it on and shoot. I've probably used considerably less than half the features available but I've found my Sony mirrorless very easy to operate and I'm learning more about it all the time.
After about 4 decades of using a Nikon F (which I got as a high school graduation present) and Nikkormat lenses I got a Nikon L840, a digital with a built in zoom and it gave me some surprisingly good images. When I wanted something better suited to shooting wildlife while hiking but still pretty light I decided against a DSLR and went with a Sony a6000 mirrorless with a 27-50 lens and a 55-210 zoom that came in a package from Beach Camera through Amazon, along with other goodies, filters, cleaning devices etc. I used this site to pick it out, which makes it easy to compare various cameras- https://cameradecision.com/
There does seem to be one drawback to the Sony, there aren't a large variety of lenses available for it, at least there weren't when I bought it 7 years ago but I added an Olympus 1.7 Teleconverter to it and am happy with the results. It works very well for what I do.