Winged Migration is a movie we recently watched that ties in with our zoology studies this year. It’s not good when I get my subjects mixed up (LOL).. you know my aging brain gets things mixed up once in awhile.

Here is a mom quote that happened while we were watching Winged Migration and studying “immigration” and Ellis Island all in the same week (LOL). This is in regard to one of the kids asking me a question about their co-op assignment. Sadly, I didn’t even realize I had said something wrong, but they picked up on the wrong word right away and had a good laugh (LOL)!

Mom quote: “You’re supposed to be studying where our family migrated from.”

Here is an excerpt of this movie from the Blockbuster website:

While practically everyone is aware of the fact that birds fly south for the winter, and return home in the spring, few are aware of just how arduous the journey can be. Jacqutes Perrin, a noted actor and film producer in his native France, decided to document this process, using flocks of birds who had been trained to ignore the distractions of his camera crew, and employing a variety of state-of-the-art technology to capture as unobtrusively as possible the flight paths of different birds from around the globe. The result was Winged Migration, a visually dazzling documentary that records the flight of dozens of different birds as they follow their navigational instincts and make the taxing journey to more temperate climates in the fall, all chronicled without the use of narration. The first directorial effort for Perrin, Winged Migration received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Running Time: 89 minutes

Here are a couple of pictures we took of some birds that stopped to eat some corn in the field next to our house as they migrated through our area this fall.

They are SO NOISY!!