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A celebration of birds that reflects a year in the wild, revealing how these amazing creatures embody our changing world, by one of Britain's foremost naturalists. Gods of the Morning follows the year through the turning of the seasons at Aigas, the Highlands estate John Lister-Kaye has transformed into a world-renowned wildlife center. John's affection, wisdom and lyricism sings off every page, bringing the natural world around him to life: from the rookery filled with twenty-nine nests and distinct bird calls to descriptions of the winter morning light, from the wood mice and the squirrels preparing for winter to tracking a fox's path through the snow. In particular it brings John's lifelong love of birdshis gods of the morningto the fore. >In the Highland glens, bird numbers plummet as their food suppliesnatural fruits and every kind of creeping, crawling, slithering or flying bugbegin to disappear. Not just the swallows and house martins have vanished from round the houses. Gone are the insect snatching wheatears, whinchats and stonechats from the hills, and redstarts and flycatchers have fled the woods. Pied wagtails no longer flicker across the lawns and sandpipers and grey

Author

Lister-Kaye, John, 1946- author

Publisher

W W Norton & Co Inc

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781605987965

Subjects

Science, History, Biology