A Sky Full of Kites
A Rewilding Story
by Tom Bowser
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An inspirational real-life story
Scots Magazine
Imbued with the author's passion for nature, and his desire to dedicate his family's land to conservation
The Bookseller
This book has plenty to tell us about the birds… many of the best bits of this book are the historical references and the brief history of kites in literature and history
Scotland on Sunday
An environmental story that gives hope, a story of a bird that was extinct doing really well on an estate that’s trying to promote a different way of doing things
Dundee Courier
A wonderful book
BBC TV's Landward
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
Birdwatcher Magazine
About the Book
Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award
Red kites were once Britain’s 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 Bowser’s 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 Niall’s 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 family’s land to conservation.
The Author
Tom Bowser
Tom Bowser grew up on his parents’ Perthshire farm. After university he worked as a teacher and then as a journalist before returning to Argaty in 2009. In 2017 he took over the running of the conservation project Argaty Red Kites, and in 2018 launched the Argaty Red Squirrels project.
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