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Title: H is for Hawk on PBS Post by: Donna on 06-Oct-17, 08:08:38 PM http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/h-is-for-hawk-about/15500/ (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/h-is-for-hawk-about/15500/)
Looks interesting! Some may get the channel and others just won't! :( H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter premieres nationwide Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). After the unexpected death of her photojournalist father, Helen Macdonald overcame her grief by training an adult goshawk, one of nature’s most notoriously wild and free-spirited birds of prey. As she explains in the film, “I ran towards things of death and difficulty: spooky, pale-eyed feathered ghosts that lived and killed in woodland thickets. I ran towards goshawks.” She had trained birds before, but never this raptor which she named Mabel. Macdonald found healing in that cathartic experience which became the basis for her 2014 international best-selling memoir H Is for Hawk. Now, 10 years after she trained Mabel (who died of untreatable infection just before the author finished writing her book), Macdonald is ready to take on the challenge again, prompted by watching how a pair of wild goshawks reared their chicks in an English forest. This Nature film accompanies her on visits to the pair’s nest to observe the latest developments and follows Macdonald’s emotional and intimate journey as she adopts a young goshawk and attempts to raise it as her own: feeding, nurturing, and training her new charge in the hopes the months of preparation will culminate in a successful first free flight. |