Posted on 12/29/2017 4:37:33 PM PST by mairdie
They say birds of feather flock together and these birds are no exception as they take to the skies with a microlight pilot they believe to be their mother.
Christian Moullec has been dubbed the 'birdman' for his extraordinary relationship with birds and as this breathtaking footage shows, the 58-year-old loves nothing more than sharing his passion with others - taking people up on his microlight and encouraging them to reach out and touch the birds mid-flight.
Christian, from Cantal in France, first starting flying with birds back in 1995 in a bid to migrate them to areas where they were well protected and stop their numbers declining.
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I remember Fly Away Home, Jeff Daniels was great as usual.
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>>Fly Away Home
LOVED that movie!
Look, SS!
You raised a son with excellent taste!
Where IS this? Here in Pennsyltucky the chickens molt (shed and grow new feathers) in the summertime.
Some of these scenes of so many fowl remind me of the original CROCCODILE DUNDEE movie; which was the first time I’d seen such huge flocks of fowl in a movie.
If you mean the chickens. “But members of a craft club in Somerset have been keeping featherless rescue hens warm during the freezing weather by knitting woolly jumpers for them.
Hundreds of pullovers have been made by the club in Taunton, Somerset, after members took pity on the bald hens that have been rescued from battery farms.”
Forgot that. Have to go back and rewatch it.
That movie was the first thing I thought of when I read this title. I believe it was based on a true story.
Nope that one was not based on a true story. But it was really nice.
In the film, Amy (played by Anna Paquin) was raised in New Zealand and then moved to Canada after her mother’s death. In real life, Anna Paquin was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand.
Based on the true story of William Lishman’s and Joseph Duff’s experiments on migrating birds. Lishman and Duff provided actual “imprinted” birds for the making of the film, as well as the actual aircraft used.
Nine years after they played father and daughter in Fly Away Home (1996), Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin filmed a sex scene together for The Squid and the Whale (2005). Daniels said in interview at the time that the way they coped with filming the sex scene was by trying “not to think about...you know, geese.”
Release of the film was delayed after a seven year-old girl, Jessica Dubroff, was killed at the controls of a small plane that crashed amidst a much-publicized transcontinental flight attempt, along with her father and flight instructor.
Amy’s fake nose ring was Anna Paquin’s attempt at being humorously rebellious, to see what the crew would say if she had pierced her nose mid-shoot. She found the fake ring in a ‘neat junky jewelry store’ in Toronto, and got it for free. To her disappointment, her attempt at being rebellious was well-received, as Carroll Ballard decided to use the nose-ring gag in the film as well.
The original title for the film which can be seen in several trailers, was “Flying Wild.”
The song “10,000 Miles” is originally an 18th century folk ballad. It was recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter specifically for this movie, and was subsequently released on her CD “Party Doll and Other Favorites” (1999).
Daryl Hannah was considered for the role of Susan Barnes, but lost to Dana Delany.
According to the credits, the military aircraft were from New York. The F-16s belonged to the 174th Fighter Wing of the New York Air National Guard, and the C-130Hs belonged to the 914th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve. They were not, however, located on the same base. The F-16s come from Syracuse, NY, and the transports were located at the time at Niagara Falls, NY.
The scene of Amy in the field approximately 20 minutes into the movie is an homage (intended or not) to Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Christina’s World”.
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