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Review: Winged Migration
« on: Jun 22^nd, 2003, 7:48am »

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Gomez and I saw this movie last night. It was the first movie we have seen alone together since our daughter was born over 5 years ago Cool

Loved the movie although you would not exactly call it your typical action thriller or comedy either.

It is a film about the migration of birds around the world. It focussed on birds that generally migrated more than 1000 miles and it was incredibly beautiful. I honestly don't know how they made this movie.

It showed migrations on every continent of the earth and followed the migrating birds through a whole year cycle. They showed the most beautiful of the large birds such as a wide variety of geese and cranes. Also penquins in the antarctic and the amazing terns who migrate every year from the arctic to the antarctic.

Migrations through human territory are also shown and almost always included the deaths of one or more birds.

They must have used ultralights as well as boats to film this production. It had to have been filmed for a very long time and certainly the NY City scenes were filmed more than 2 years ago because the world trade center towers were still standing.

The scenery is unrivalled from the mountain tops of Nepal to the deserts of Africa to the ice and rocks of antarctica and the arctic.

The one thing I really noticed was how quiet the film is. There is very little voice over. Incredibly the film is mostly just you sitting and watching the birds be birds. The music that it is set too is extremely well done.

I highly recommend this film - it is different from anything you have ever seen before including wildlife documentaries. Usually we take ear plugs to the movies because they are so loud but even 1000 birds taking off are not so loud as one car chase scene in another film.

Suitable for all ages. There are a couple of parts where one bird or animal eats another as part of nature and children may be upset by this. Especially one bird that had a broken wing and couldnot fly and landed on a beach where huge african sand crabs all surrounded it and killed it and ate it. I never realized this.

Man does help the birds sometimes too by providing rest stops. There are some asian cranes that migrate always past one old woman's farm and when they stop there they trust her enough to feed them from her hand. A beautiful scene.

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Re: Review: Winged Migration
« Reply #1 on: Jun 22^nd, 2003, 12:36pm »

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That sounds like a film that would be close to my heart addams. I want to see this if/when it comes to Wnpg. Was this an IMAX?

Oh, and did they show one of my favs - the puffins? I just love those little guys. Was there a spot for hummingbirds? When we lived in Santa Barbara, I had 8 (or so) feeders for them and they weren't the least bit afraid of me. They landed on my head, arms and hands when I refilled the feeders.

It never failed that 3 or 4 times every season, we'd have one of the hummers fly in the house. The only way I found to rescue them, was to darken the room - usually this happened in the familyroom just off the patio - and open the slider so it would fly out. If that didn't work, I'd go outside and grab a feeder so it would land there and voila!

Did you know that hummers are just about the most fierce fighters of all birds? Maybe all this has to do with breeding, but every season there would be a couple who fought to the death. We followed one pair who ended up across the street in our neighbor's pool. Mr. Johnson scooped them out of the pool with his skimmer but they went back to fighting. I couldn't stand to watch it and went home. He told me they continued to another neighbors yard where it eventually ended in the death of one of the hummers.

When "Rusty" came home (he was a rufous and had markings I recognized) later that evening, I noticed tinsy blood spots and when he drank the nectar, it spilled out of his gullet. Rusty lived only another two days. Cry

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« Reply #2 on: Jun 22^nd, 2003, 2:16pm »

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wow..I didn't know they were serious when they fight?

I have 2 hummingbird feeders set up in mom's windows and they always come down and chase each other but I have never seen it get really violent and just thought they were playing. I will have to watch it more closely.

As for Puffins..just 2 more weeks and I get to go puffin watching (it is part of the whale watch we will be going on on Sunday I believe)....yeah...can't wait... Cool

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Re: Review: Winged Migration
« Reply #3 on: Jun 22^nd, 2003, 6:31pm »

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The Movie is not IMAX and we saw it at a regular theatre but it's not playing in too many of them.

It is SO worth going to MzWings. I just know you would love it.

At first I thought there were puffins but I think it turned out they were Murre (spelling?)

And sadly no humminbirds. I would have LOVED to see the hummers. There is a pair that have returned to my mom and dad's cottage this summer. They know my parents and are very tame around them.

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« Reply #4 on: Jun 22^nd, 2003, 7:06pm »

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alright addams, I am pretty darn quick, let me see if I got this right..................
gomez is a "code" name for your hubby?

am I right? huh huh am I Huh