A Sky Full of Kites: A Rewilding Story [Paperback]

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year AwardRed kites were once Britains most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd been wiped out in Scotland and England following centuries of ruthless persecution. When some reintroduced kites began roosting on their 1,400-acre farm at Argaty in Perthshire, Tom Bowsers parents, Lynn and Niall, decided to turn their estate into a safe haven. They began feeding the birds and invited the world to come and see them, learn about them and fall in love with them.A Sky Full of Kites is the story of the Argaty Red Kite project, and the re-establishing of these magnificent raptors to Scotland, but it is also much more than that. Ill at ease with the traditional rural values of livestock farming, Lynn and Nialls son Tom, who returned to work on the farm after a career in journalism, reveals his passion for nature and his desire to dedicate his familys land to conservation.This is the inspirational story of the reintroduction of one of Britain's most majestic birds of prey. At a time when Britain's wildlife is in major decline, this is a tale of hope about the positive differences that people can make.An inspirational real-life story'Imbued with the author's passion for nature, and his desire to dedicate his family's land to conservation'This book has plenty to tell us about the birds& many of the best bits of this book are the historical references and the brief history of kites in literature and history'An environmental story that gives hope, a story of a bird that was extinct doing really well on an estate thats trying to promote a different way of doing things'A wonderful book'The story of how a farm was turned into a private wildlife reserve&.hopefully more farmers will start to see wildlife as an asset, as this farm did'GB