Nature Done Wright

My latest Bird Watcher column is on "The Big Year," a movie about competitive bird-watching that flopped at the box office but is now out on video.

I thought the movie was delightful — and now that's it available on video, it's definitely worth a look.

Here's the link. It's based loosely on the book of the same name, but the operative word is "loosely."

One neat thing is that it mentions Sandy Komito (formerly of Fair Lawn) as the record holder. Sandy is a friend of many of us birders in North Jersey, so it was nice that his achievement was acknowledged even if the character in the movie based loosely (there's that word again) on Sandy was a bit over the top.