Backyard Birds Revealed is a 5-part video series that reveals details about familiar birds that visit feeders and landscaping near you. In each 5 minute episode, filmmakers Tim Laman and Russell Laman challenge themselves to get slow-motion and wide-angle videos, and narrate the details and discoveries uncovered in their interesting videos. See Tim and Russell set up their equipment to film chickadees, jays, woodpeckers, wrens, nuthatches, and more while you learn about some of the adaptations that birds use to survive and thrive in our yards and beyond.
As you watch you will gain a new appreciation of the birds in your own backyard. Familiar feeder birds like chickadees and titmice are fun to watch, but they move so fast it's hard to fully appreciate their impressive flying skills. In the first episode, Russ and Tim used a specialized camera capable of taking video at the high speed of 1,000 frames per second, which allowed them to slow the action to the show the series of intricate motions involved in the simple activity of a variety of birds landing at a feeder. Each of the videos has a specific theme, and Tim and Russell provide insightful narration that makes you feel like you are bundled up and standing next to them as the filming takes place in their Massachusetts backyard.
There is really no need to read more; instead, check out the short films for yourself, starting with Capturing Epic Slow Motion Footage of Backyard Birds
With their lively antics and flashes of color, birds can brighten any winter day. Enjoy the birds' activities and learn more about backyard birds in each of these short videos too:
Embrace the Beauty of Birds in Snow
Are Birds Fighting at the Feeder? Uncover Hidden Drama in Your Backyard
What's the Hole Deal with Woodpecker Holes?
Two Ways to Climb a Tree—But Why?
Tim and Russell Laman are wildlife filmmakers whose work includes documentaries for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, National Geographic, BBC, Netflix, and others.
The Backyard Birds Revealed series is made possible by Wild Birds Unlimited (WBU), the original and largest franchise system of backyard bird feeding specialty stores, with more than 360 stores spread across the United States and Canada. WBU also has excellent on-line product services in case you don't have a store nearby at Wild Birds Unlimited
Great Backyard Bird Count Reminder:
Continue to plan and gear up for the annual GBBC birding event that will take place Friday February 13th thru Monday the 16th – you can participate anytime over President's Day Weekend. This exceptional birding event has expanded over the years to not only include birds you see in your yard and feeding station, but you can count birds anywhere you want to observe, identify, and count birds. And now it's a premier worldwide birding event with multitudes of birders joining together to share their birding lists online through eBird. Learn more about how you can participate during a short period on your choice of days, or daily at as many locations as you wish to enjoy birding opportunities. Learn more at Join the Great Backyard Bird Count! – K-12 Education