Colin McDonald
December 29th, 2011, 02:39 PM
If you can watch this, and haven't already (it started on BBC HD tonight), you should. Some incredible footage.
Flying with birds in BBC's Earthflight - in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2011/dec/20/bbc-one-earthflight-in-pictures)
Earthflight joins the breathtaking journeys across six vast continents of snow geese, cranes, falcons, albatross, eagles and other birds . Spycams film right in the heart of the flock with microlights, hang-gliders and wirecams making up the aerial filming arsenal.
I appreciate that not everyone can use the BBC iPlayer because of copyright limitations - I hope the Guardian link works outside the UK. Pictures 14, 15 and 16 show how some of the footage was taken.
Flying with birds in BBC's Earthflight - in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2011/dec/20/bbc-one-earthflight-in-pictures)
Earthflight joins the breathtaking journeys across six vast continents of snow geese, cranes, falcons, albatross, eagles and other birds . Spycams film right in the heart of the flock with microlights, hang-gliders and wirecams making up the aerial filming arsenal.
I appreciate that not everyone can use the BBC iPlayer because of copyright limitations - I hope the Guardian link works outside the UK. Pictures 14, 15 and 16 show how some of the footage was taken.