Bird watching to me is one of the best ways of practicing mindfulness and regularly connecting to nature. One of the birders in this documentary summarizes it pretty well:

The Seven Pleasure of Birding
1. The beauty of the birds
2. The joy of being in a natural setting
3. The joy of scientific discovery
4. The joys of hunting without the bloodshed
5. The joy of puzzle solving
6. The joy of collecting
7. The unicorn effect (studying a bird before seeing it. It taking on a mythological status. Then seeing it suddenly in the wild and sharing that space with them)

I love the look of this. Feels like watching an extremely long video game cutscene. I'm reminded of the games by Fumito Ueda. I want more feature length animated films to look like this.

There's some beautiful imagery but the whole film is ruined by the inclusion of lot of real animal cruelty and a misogynist tone that makes no attempts to condemn violence against woman. Researching the director and yeah..big yikes.

Full of mystery and wonder. Finding art within art. This made me wish I had little gaming crew to explore weird virtual worlds with.