As regular readers and viewers on WNTV will be aware, I have been following the nightly sunset air display of the Pencoyd starlings and yesterday I managed to capture the most stunning film so far, along with some nice sunset photographs. This time, I decided to capture the sound of the starlings properly, and so, apart from my introduction and sign-off, I have not run any music, leaving the sound to nature and a passing aircraft.

The film is well worth watching to the end as the sound when all of the birds are in the bush is incredible! Please take no notice of the accidental echo of my voice on the film. I have not added echo to make the birds sound better. What happened is that I took my headphones off while speaking to save hearing myself echo back a second later and, without thinking, I hung them next to the camera's microphone. (I had one remote radio microphone and one at the camera end).

This is not the worst mistake I have made whilst filming the starlings. The day before I drove there and then realized I had forgotten both of my stills cameras and the movie camera. On the bright side, I had remembered the tripod! :-)

Happy 2009! Enjoy! If you really like this film, you can follow this link to my Vimeo page and download the mpeg1 version. Only for personal use though, please unless you ask first.

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