Flight
I wrote the music based on the general idea of wanting to display the freedom of bird flight whilst also including the majesty and danger of the scenery they fly over. I used some of the same ideas as previously used in my Dolphins piece - the same time signature with big arpeggios for the wind and movement of the birds, rather than the water movement as in Dolphins. For the climax after the exploding tree I used a long flowing tune which is a variant of the tune after the intro over a strong countermelody, one taking the foreground, then the other. There are a lot of subtle orchestral effects that are well bought out with good headphones.
After writing the music, thinking of high migrating birds, Eagles, Albatrosses, snowy mountains and Starlings murmurating, I looked around for video clips then selected pieces and edited them together to fit the music as best I could using DaVinci Resolve software.
Below is the resulting video set to the music.
If you want to follow the score as it plays then see the video below. Note the orchestra is large, so the notation is titchy without a big screen, but you may get the idea anyway!