HIGHLAND HERONRY
Full length video
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Title: HIGHLAND HERONRY
Reference number: 2810
Date: 1961
Director: filmed by Charles E. Palmar
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 27 mins
Description:
Herons seen in their natural habitat in the highlands of Scotland. Dwellers in neighbourhood include oystercatcher, redshank, shelduck, merganser, common gull, hooded crow, common tern, swans, eider duck, wheatear. Toads and adder come out of hibernation. Deer steal through woodland.
Joint winner of BBC/ Nature Conservancy film competition for amateurs 1963.
The film-maker was Charles Palmar, a Natural History Curator in Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow from 1949 - 1984.
Shotlist: In spring heron returns to fishing grounds; pale blue eggs appear in nest, soon young clamour for food. Fledglings exercise their wings. Dwellers in neighbourhood include oystercatcher, redshank, shelduck, merganser, common gull, hooded crow, common tern, swans, eider duck, wheatear. Toads and adder come out of hibernation. Deer steal through woodland. (26.00)