The Music Of Nature
January 31st, 2011

These "video portraits" by Music of Nature are simply breathtaking. I could take stills from any one of them and call them excellent photographs--the video quality is that good. Add to that the beautifully captured birdsong and it's a feast for the senses.



I also can't imagine how they captured some of this, with the more bashful and secretive species. I mean really: Henslow's Sparrow? What's next, footage of a unicorn?

Here are my favorites (besides the Winter Wren embedded above):

Chestnut-Sided Warbler
Red-Winged Blackbird
Canada Warbler
Bobolink
Eastern Towhee
White-Eyed Vireo
Ruffed Grouse (drumming) (the visuals on this one are particularly striking...it's also one of those cases of "how on earth did they capture this?" Male grouse don't like anyone watching them drum except for female grouse!)

And some others of interest:

Veery
Wood Thrush
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Prairie Warbler
Henslow's Sparrow
Orchard Oriole

The videographer's Youtube channel and dedicated website.

Virginia Winter Birds: Roundup ←

→ Watchful Eye