A Sky Full Of Birds

Britain is a nation of bird-lovers. However, few Britons fully appreciate the sheer scale, variety, and drama of their avian life. From city-center hunters to vast flocks straight out of the Arctic wilderness, much-loved dawn songsters to the exotic invaders of supermarket car parks, a host of remarkable wildlife spectacles are waiting to be discovered right outside the UK's front doors. In A Sky Full of Birds, poet and nature writer Matt Merritt shares his passion for bird watching by taking readers to some of the great avian gatherings that occur around the British isles—from ravens in Anglesey and raptors on the Wirral, to Kent nightingales and Scottish capercallies. By turns lyrical, informative, and entertaining, he shows how natural miracles can be found all around, if only one knows where to look for them.