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--Boundary_(ID_Mp8ahneKB0gMYH8x250SXg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Thanks, Richard -- and for those who missed it, there was a movie =20 review in yesterdays Chronicle Herald's Arts section. Cheers from =20 Jim in Wolfville. Chronicle Herald, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1268328.html Tracking birders=92 path Begin forwarded message: > From: Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com> > Date: October 14, 2011 11:21:10 PM ADT > To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, NS-RBA <NS-=20 > RBA@yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [NatureNS] The Big Year > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi, > > Just got back from seeing The Big Year at the local movie theater. =20 > I admit I went with some trepidation, fearing some degree of =20 > ridicule for keen birders, but it was handled well, and the idea of =20= > totally disparate characters becoming good friends through birding =20 > resonated well. Some of the acting and the characters were a bit =20 > "over the top", but the birding stuff was dead accurate - e.g. =20 > footage of the Xantus Hummer in Gibsons, BC, correct ID of all =20 > kinds of warblers etc., and good footage of many bird species. The =20 > scenes at Attu had something in common with Seal Island. I could =20 > identify well with one of the characters (those of you who know me =20 > and see the movie won't need to guess too hard). At least one of =20 > the minor characters was clearly based on a well known bird tour =20 > leader, and one of the main characters was, I suspect, an =20 > exaggerated version of another well known birder. I think that for =20 > once in the media, the bird and birding advisors have done the =20 > homework very well. I recommend that birders should go and see it =20= > for an interesting evening, a feeling of familiarity, and some good =20= > light-hearted moments. > > Richard > > --=20 > ################# > Richard Stern, > Port Williams, NS, Canada > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### --Boundary_(ID_Mp8ahneKB0gMYH8x250SXg) Content-type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks, Richard -- and for = those who missed it, there was a movie review in yesterdays Chronicle = Herald's Arts section. Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<div><br></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Chronicle = Herald, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6"><a = href=3D"http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1268328.html">http://thechro= nicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1268328.html</a></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <table cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" = style=3D"padding: 2.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td = valign=3D"top" style=3D"width: 401.0px; padding: 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px = 2.0px"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 35px; "><font face=3D"Georgia" = size=3D"7" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 32.0px Georgia; color: = #001ee6"><a = href=3D"http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1268328.html">Tracking = birders=92 path</a></font></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> = </table><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Richard Stern <<a = href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">October 14, 2011 11:21:10 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">NatureNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>>, = NS-RBA <<a = href=3D"mailto:NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com">NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[NatureNS] The Big = Year</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Hi,<br><br>Just = got back from seeing The Big Year at the local movie theater. I admit I = went with some trepidation, fearing some degree of ridicule for keen = birders, but it was handled well, and the idea of totally disparate = characters becoming good friends through birding resonated well. Some of = the acting and th