Birds in the Spring Birds in the Spring Birds in the Spring is a "Silly Symphonies" animated Disney short film. It was released in 1933. Various birds are seen building nests and caring for eggs. One pair anxiously awaits the hatching of three eggs, then joyfully summon all the other birds to see their new, noisy hatchlings. Time jumps forward to when the hatchlings are fully fledged, learning to sing and fly. One becomes lost and explores the ground, encountering grasshoppers, humming birds and then a rattlesnake that attempts to eat the baby bird. The bird manages to lead the snake into tying itself
Backwards to Britain themes of ballooning and African explorations; it was published in 1863 as "Five Weeks in a Balloon". The rejected manuscript of "Backwards to Britain" was eventually acquired by the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Nantes. "Backwards to Britain" was first published in an edition edited by Christian Robin, "Voyage à reculons en Angleterre et en Ecosse" (Paris: Le Cherche Midi, 1989), including the text, facsimiles of two pages of the manuscript, a map, and 84 images from contemporary sources. An English translation by Janice Valls-Russell was published by W & R Chambers Ltd in 1992. Backwards to Britain Backwards to