A reminder for those of you who have HBO and missed the documentary at the SIFF the (slightly renamed) "Birders: The Central Park Effect" documentary went out on HBO on July 12 (and I think will keep popping up in the next week). It's got to appear on DVD sooner or later.

Even if you've seen it the NYT review is amusing

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/arts/television/birders-the-central-park-effect-on-hbo.html

> ?And [the director is] a really good birder,? added Ms. Saphir, who gently admonishes birders who point at birds, and worries that long lenses and even binoculars can scare them away. In each case any movement can be a problem.

Shades of the "Honking big lens" discussion again :-)

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/scanning-the-central-park-sky-with-jonathan-franzen/

More at

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/birders-the-central-park-effect/index.html

http://www.hbo.com/schedule/detail/Birders:+The+Central+Park+Effect/580098/748106
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