Halcyon_River_Diaries《翠鸟河日记》

自然科学类纪录片,BBC 频道 2010 年出品。

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sj4tp

  • 中文片名 :翠鸟河日记 / 哈尔西恩河日记
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  • 英文片名 :Halcyon River Diaries
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  • 电视台 :BBC
  • 地区 :英国
  • 语言 :英语
  • 版本 :DVD
  • 发行时间 :2010

四集纪录片《翠鸟河日记》通过一家英国家庭的所见所得来记录河流两岸野生动物的多彩生活。

Halcyon River Diaries is an entirely fresh approach to natural history programme making: a four-part documentary series made by a family for families, and an engaging and original mix of wildlife and observational documentary.

Following the success of My Halcyon River (BBC2 Natural World), and filmed and produced by award-winning wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton James, it is an intimate look at the wildlife of a typical English river, as seen through the eyes of a family who live beside it and love it.

Charlie is a wildlife cameraman; he spends most of his life travelling the world filming exotic species in incredible locations. But this year Charlie, his wife Philippa, and their sons are on a mission closer to home; they want to get to know the wild neighbours who live along the river next to their house, by making an intimate film diary of their lives. The results are full of surprises and often hilarious.

In this programme they discover the secret life of the nocturnal otter on British rivers and film unique behaviour of a river otter hunting at night.

The boys recreate the river bed in an old tank to investigate the family life of the stickleback. This works brilliantly for the film diary, until all the fish start disappearing, but just who is eating them?

Conservationist Philippa launches a search for the fastest declining mammal in the UK, the water vole. What she finds causes both joy and concern.

And the cameras reveal what the life of an ordinary mallard mum is really like, as one night she frantically tries to protect her ducklings from being eaten.

The family follows the fortunes of three very different birds: kingfishers, dippers and moorhens, to see if they can survive what is the most dangerous season of their year.

After having their first nest raided, the kingfishers have now mated again. There is a problem though, and it’s something that Charlie has never witnessed in over two decades of studying these small bright birds: the male has run off with another female.

With cameras wired to a moorhen’s nest, the family watch the chicks hatch in a tree, and then look on as a tragedy unfolds. And Charlie creates the world’s first underwater bird table in order to see how dippers hunt for submerged prey.

Philippa, meanwhile, makes a plan to protect the vulnerable water vole population on the river and charges Charlie with the job of filming them. His mind is elsewhere though; Charlie’s busy building the ultimate otter des-res. Equipped with cameras, he wants get an insight into the private life of these elusive creatures.

Spring is a beautiful time on the river, the mayflies have just 24 hours to spin, dance and mate in the sunshine after two years as larvae in the mud, but despite its beauty, the family’s film diary reveals that life and death for the creatures on the river are never far apart.

It’s now summer, and Charlie and Fred find out just how tough life on the river can be when they take possession of an injured baby kingfisher.

Charlie tracks down some new otters on the river - a mum and a cub - and takes five-year-old Gus out to try to film them.

Philippa enlists the help of a hundred and fifty thousand new bees to try and help the native riverside flowers but, to her disappointment, they’re only interested in the non-native ones. So she decides it’s time for action.

At the aquarium, the boys get a glimpse of a rarely-seen underwater predator, the voracious dragonfly larvae.

And conservationist Philippa is keen to protect the small population of water voles on the river by trapping the mink. So the family joins a group of like- minded volunteers and builds a flotilla of rafts, which will hopefully detect any of the passing predators.

Having got to know all the animals on the river, Charlie, Philippa and the boys have lots of questions about them. This episode sees the family testing their theories and conducting a few home-made experiments.

Charlie believes otters can smell underwater and sets up his underwater cameras to test his theory; what he discovers could be new to science.

The family then goes off in search of elusive white-clawed crayfish and they find a few at a secret location known as an ‘ark site’.

Charlie is keen to see how many fish it takes to feed a family of kingfishers in a season and sets up an experiment to find out.

And Fred and Charlie test out a super slow-motion camera to see if they can work out how many times dragonflies can beat their wings in a second - the results are quite amazing.

As the season draws to an end, Fred and Charlie get their closest encounter yet with a family of newly fledged kingfishers.

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