A Sky Full of Kites
A Sky Full of Kites Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year AwardRed kites were once Britain's most common bird of prey. When some reintroduced kites began roosting on their…
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A Sky Full of Kites
Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year AwardRed kites were once Britain's most common bird of prey. When some reintroduced kites began roosting on their 1,400-acre farm at Argaty in Perthshire, Tom Bowser's parents, Lynn and Niall, decided to turn their estate into a safe haven. By the early 1900s they'd been wiped out in Scotland and England following centuries of ruthless persecution.
Ill at ease with the traditional rural values of livestock farming, Lynn and Niall's son Tom, who returned to work on the farm after a career in journalism, reveals his passion for 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.