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The Flight of the Snow Geese
Recounts the authors' life with and observations of the great North American flock of lesser snow geese, the flock's autumn migration from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, and the behavior of a group of imprinted young geese
189 pages, Paperback
First published October 9, 1975
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March 2, 2025
This is the life I want <3 very cozy and entertaining read; I’m now a snow goose enthusiast, and I loved the multiple sections of photos!
March 14, 2023
If you weren't around in the mid 1970's , you would not be aware of the nice burst of attention that the < 1 hour nature documentary "The Flight of the Snow geese" received then. Remember, this was just as cable TV was growing and there were only 3 TV channels in the U.K., and only 4 main TV channels in the U.S. . (There was no "streaming" or even an Internet!)
There was no B.B.C. army and David Attenboro with a big, big budget that could dedicate two years to filming in one place.
Why this matters? Because this book, that I am reviewing was an after thought, a "side project" to the documentary. As (almost always), the book is "better than the movie"!
Very true in this case as the film crew of Des and Jen Bartlett are real world, hardened veterans of filming in the wild.
Just because these new kids can run up a bill at REI and Patagonia with their networks credit card, doesn't make them as tough as this couple. Talk about survival, I just finished a book about hoe Henry Hudson hand his final few had perished in this very region, and the Bartletts camp out there for 5 months filming birds! This all makes for a wonderful read, that I highly recommend.
If you can, do as my wife and I did, watch the "The Flight of the Snow Geese" video- that should be available somewhere on YouTube, and/or stop by a natural bird refuge- as we die at the Middle Creek Bird Sanctuary in Pennsylvania (in March 2023) and watch these wonderful birds migrate. THEN read this book. What an adventure!
There was no B.B.C. army and David Attenboro with a big, big budget that could dedicate two years to filming in one place.
Why this matters? Because this book, that I am reviewing was an after thought, a "side project" to the documentary. As (almost always), the book is "better than the movie"!
Very true in this case as the film crew of Des and Jen Bartlett are real world, hardened veterans of filming in the wild.
Just because these new kids can run up a bill at REI and Patagonia with their networks credit card, doesn't make them as tough as this couple. Talk about survival, I just finished a book about hoe Henry Hudson hand his final few had perished in this very region, and the Bartletts camp out there for 5 months filming birds! This all makes for a wonderful read, that I highly recommend.
If you can, do as my wife and I did, watch the "The Flight of the Snow Geese" video- that should be available somewhere on YouTube, and/or stop by a natural bird refuge- as we die at the Middle Creek Bird Sanctuary in Pennsylvania (in March 2023) and watch these wonderful birds migrate. THEN read this book. What an adventure!
February 7, 2021
B+. nonfiction, nature, research photography snow geese, from stash, keep to give away
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