The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill---Movie Rec
kim meltzer
Hi all,
I just watched this really great documentary with my children. It's about
how Mark Bittner, who lives in Telegraph Hill (San Francisco), was searching
for his vocation. He tried playing music, and he found himself working all
kinds of miscellaneous jobs, but he didn't know what to do with himself,
career-wise. He starts reading poet Gary Snyder, and decides to start
feeding some of the local birds in an attempt to "get back to nature." He
finds himself fascinated by the local non-native parrots, and becomes very
interested in them. His interest morphs into a passion, and eventually
finds himself borrowing cameras to take pictures, buying professional film,
keeping daily logs, and becoming a real nature scientist. He reads all he
can about the birds and eventually writes a book. No one had ever really
been able to study parrots in their native habitat because it was too
difficult, but he is able to study them in S.F.
Here is a link about Mark Bittner http://www.wildparrotsbook.com/
and you can view it on Netflix Play Instantly. I watched it with my five
and three year old, and I can say everyone in the family really enjoyed it.
The birds are amusing to watch, ( my three yr old son was often cackling at
their antics,) and with Mark's back stories on the birds, it's really
interesting.
Kim
Baltimore
I just watched this really great documentary with my children. It's about
how Mark Bittner, who lives in Telegraph Hill (San Francisco), was searching
for his vocation. He tried playing music, and he found himself working all
kinds of miscellaneous jobs, but he didn't know what to do with himself,
career-wise. He starts reading poet Gary Snyder, and decides to start
feeding some of the local birds in an attempt to "get back to nature." He
finds himself fascinated by the local non-native parrots, and becomes very
interested in them. His interest morphs into a passion, and eventually
finds himself borrowing cameras to take pictures, buying professional film,
keeping daily logs, and becoming a real nature scientist. He reads all he
can about the birds and eventually writes a book. No one had ever really
been able to study parrots in their native habitat because it was too
difficult, but he is able to study them in S.F.
Here is a link about Mark Bittner http://www.wildparrotsbook.com/
and you can view it on Netflix Play Instantly. I watched it with my five
and three year old, and I can say everyone in the family really enjoyed it.
The birds are amusing to watch, ( my three yr old son was often cackling at
their antics,) and with Mark's back stories on the birds, it's really
interesting.
Kim
Baltimore
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, lalow66 <lalow@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected] <AlwaysLearning%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Heather" <brownsplus2@...> wrote:
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> > Some schooled kids are told by their parents that homeschooled kids are
> not learning b/c they are not in school. I don't care what people tell their
> kids. However, when those kids (9 year-olds) come to my house and make those
> remarks to my kids when I am not in the room, I am offended.
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> I dont know about your specific situation but in the past for us it isnt
> that the kids have been told that homeschooled kids are not learning. It has
> been that they have been told that the reason they have to go to school is
> to learn and if they dont, how will they learn xyorz.
> One little boy came up to a friend of ours and asked her, not meanly or
> anything, how she knows how to read since she doesnt go to school. His
> parents had never said anything like that but they had told him when he
> asked why he had to go to schoool that it was so he could learn to read. So
> he assumed you dont learn to read unless you go to school. As soon as he
> found out that you can indeed learn without going to school he has been
> begging to be homeschooled.
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