Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 05:42:10 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Christopher R. Kankel" Subject: Re: Winged Migration Now Playing in DC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The movie is a spectacle but a very goose-centric one. Overwhelming not unlike a mouthful of sugar followed by a mouthful of honey followed by a mouthful of treacle. If you see it, try not to notice how there's no spectacular footage of kettles of hawks buoyed by the winds bouncing off a mountain; no exhausted warblers crashing into the Louisianna coastline after a long flight over the Gulf; no hummingbirds swarming the deserts of the southwest; no thousands upon thousands of bug-chomping swallows on the wing over an impoundment; none of the millions of storm-petrels pattering their yellow-webbed feet and dipping their beaks into the briny sea searching for food; no red knots lilting bayside, plucking horseshoe crab eggs at the rate of eight per second. If you don't notice that the filmmakers failed to capture this and no doubt other overt, readily observable behavior undertaken by the birds of North America during migration -- nevermind the birds of the world -- you'll enjoy the film immensely. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================