HUNTINGTON BEACH CALIFORNIA-2020: Birds By The Sea Flying Away Fearful Of The
About this clip
Shot in Huntington Beach, California in 2020, this home movie captures birds flying away from the shoreline at sunset. The scene shows waves crashing on the beach with distant lights and an oil platform visible on the horizon. The birds appear startled, creating a moment of natural tension against the serene coastal backdrop. This amateur footage offers a candid, cinematic glimpse of wildlife behavior during a peaceful evening. Ideal for nature documentaries, environmental storytelling, or nostalgic coastal scenes.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Use this Huntington Beach sunset shoreline clip for wildlife documentary moments, coastal travel edits, environmental stories, agency mood reels, or social cuts needing birds lifting off beside surf and a distant oil platform.
- Edit role
- The 6-second clip works as a short cutaway, transition beat, or closing texture between beach action and wider coastal context, with the birds' lift-off giving editors a clear visual change across the shot.
- Visual details
- Dark beach and breaking surf fill the foreground, seabirds fly and settle near the waterline, the ocean sits under orange-blue sunset light, and a lit oil platform stands on the horizon with no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 64 MB
- Location
- Huntington Beach, California, United States
- Year filmed
- 2020
- Published
- Jan 2020
Still Frames From This Clip
3 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
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