October 2012. Natural
history and natural history film making were both created and sustained for
many years by enthusiastic amateurs, but nowadays it often seems that you are
not allowed to study the natural world unless you have a dozen college
certificates in how to wear a hard hat or the correct way to step over a style
(as long as it has been checked by the H & S department first). However,
occasionally, a throwback to an earlier age comes out of the blue, and this is
what has happened with David Culley.
David loved
sparrowhawks, but couldn't find anyone to make a film for him, so he made it
himself. It just took 10 years! He followed a pair of sparrowhawks
from November, when the male arrives back to his nesting grounds, to when the
birds disperse in August. The film also covers why as many as 19 species
of songbirds choose to nest right next to the sparrowhawk!
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