'Birder's Guide' Film Shoots in Chappaqua

A small home on a quiet Chappaqua street served Tuesday as the latest filming spot for A Birder's Guide to Everything, which includes Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley.

The modest home and lawn, on Oak Mill Road, were busy with cast and crew working on a major scene for the film, a person involved with it confirmed. It is a wedding between the father of the main character, David Portnoy and the woman who served as nurse before his mother died.

Keeping with the sequence, folks came prepared in formal attire, even if the rain mean that Mother Nature wasn't being fully cooperative.

The film's preparation—it being a member of a high school birders' club  believing he has found the potentially extinct labrador duck and falling in love—has been all over northern Westchester County. Since July, shoot locations have included , and

The movie has a local connection to Chappaqua, as producer Dan Lindau is a resident. It is

The shoots for the movie are close to finishing, according to Kara Janeczko, the film's location manager. Thinking positively about the weather, she noted an expression that rain before a wedding can be good luck.