We know how much everyone here loves James Currie’s blogging, not to mention a little something called Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV. So don’t you think his new program Aerial Assassins featuring Harris’s Hawks is going to be awesome? Show your support for awesome nature programming by watching tonight January 20 on National Geographic WILD. (As a bonus, James has promised to give us the inside scoop on the making of Aerial Assassins next month!)
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From the trailer, this looks, well, stupid. With humans and dogs as beaters, the Harris’s Hawks can’t fail. This isn’t sport and it isn’t entertaining. Insert wolf as prey, humans as beaters, and Sarah in a helo as predator. Arrrgh.
The shaking camera and zooming in and out for no reason and .5 seconds for each scene is very annoying. Reality television shows – and the aniamls shows are getting worse. The zooming, split second scenes, and the spinning of the camera were making me queasy while watching the show. If it is a regular series, I’d like to watch it, because there are none dedicated to birds only. However, if they’re all the over the top taping/editing, I can’t watch. It was dizzying to watch.